Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2010, #01; Wed, 03)

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

* ml/color-grep (2010-02-26) 3 commits
 - grep: Colorize selected, context, and function lines
 - grep: Colorize filename, line number, and separator
 - Add GIT_COLOR_BOLD_* and GIT_COLOR_BG_*

There was a comment about not special casing filename coloring?

The disagreement is whether --name-only output should be colored or
not.  In the patch, it is not, which I argue makes more sense.  When
--name-only is given, the only thing output is filenames.  Having them
all be the same color adds no information, and I personally find it
annoying to see one big block of the same color. GNU grep does color
the filenames with --name-only.  Michael Witten argues that this makes
the output consistent: whenever it's a filename, it's colored. [1]  He
also thinks that matching GNU grep's behavior is important.  He didn't
convince me and I didn't convince him, so it would be nice to have
more opinions on this.