Re: [PATCH 1/3] for-each-ref: introduce %C(...) for color

Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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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?

Junio C Hamano wrote:

... 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?

Okay, so what do you suggest in place of %C(...)?