Re: [PATCH/RFC] ignore unknown color configuration

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 01:45:45PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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This is a sane thing to do, as "slot" is part of the name of the variable,
and we generally do not warn upon seeing a misspelled variable name (it
makes it worse that "func" is not even misspelled but merely unknown to
older version of git in your scenario).

On the other hand, I suspect that most people would apprecfiate if their
git pointed out "diff.color.finc?  What do you mean?"  before they waste
30 minutes wondering why the new feature in 1.6.6 does not work for them.

I would be more sympathetic to that user if this weren't the _only_ set
of variables with this property. They don't get warned for diff.externel
or color.show-branch.

True and fair enough.  Let's have this in 1.6.6 then.