Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] writes:
Junio C Hamano wrote:
quoted
This patch is about for-each-ref and your series does not seem to
aim to unify it in any way with pretty-formats, so I would have
expected an enhancement in line with the former, not the latter.
While I might never attempt a unification again, there's no harm in
getting the formats to resemble each other in part.
Yes, but...
it's likely that
users of f-e-r format will be familiar with pretty-formats.
... users of for-each-ref format will be _more_ familiar with
formats used by for-each-ref, and it would make a lot more sense to
keep the syntactic resemblance between existing features to show
magic things in for-each-ref and the new feature to show color
(which is merely one new "magic" to the vocabulary in the context of
for-each-ref), no?