Re: Updated to v2.14.2 on macOS; git add --patch broken

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

Note that I'm arguing that it's a foot-gun even without scripts in the
picture at all. Forget about plumbing versus porcelain. If you set
color.ui to "always", you're going to get unexpected and confusing
results from time to time.

Really? 

I would think you would consistently get ANSI colored output in any
medium, even in files that you would later "cat" or "less -R" to
view.  Is that unexpected?  Those who set "always" (I am not among
them, of course) would expect that, I would think.