Re: [PATCH 4/5] grep: Colorize filename, line number, and separator

Mark Lodato [off-list ref] writes:

Furthermore, the current behavior of all git tools is to make
--color turn on color always, so I imagine you would have to make an
extremely compelling argument to break backwards compatibility.

I don't think the usual backwards-compatibility arguments should really
apply to edge-cases in frippery like --color...

-Miles

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