color: turn 'ui.color' into a boolean (auto or off)
Previously, 'ui.color=yes' meant "always show color", While
"ui.color=auto" meant "use color automatically when it appears
sensible".
This feels problematic to some people because if an administrator has
disabled color with "ui.color=off", and a user turn it back on using
"color=on", it will get surprised (because it breaks their output when
redirected to a file.) This patch changes ui.color=true to only move the
default value of --color from "never" to "auto".
I'm not really in favor of this changes as I suspect the above case will
be pretty rare and I would rather keep the logic simpler. However, I'm
providing this patch to help the 4.2 release in the case were others
decide to make this changes.
Users that want to force colors without specifying --color on the
command line can use the 'ui.formatted' config knob, which had to be
enabled in a handful of tests for this patch.
Nice summary table (credit: Augie Fackler)
That is, before this patch:
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| | not a tty | a tty |
| | --color not set | --color not set |
| | | |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui] | | |
| color (not set) | no color | no color |
| | | |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui] | | |
| color = auto | no color | color |
| | | |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui] | | |
| color = yes | *color* | color |
| | | |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui] | | |
| color = no | no color | no color |
| | | |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
(if --color is specified, it always clobbers the setting in [ui])
and after this patch:
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| | not a tty | a tty |
| | --color not set | --color not set |
| | | |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui] | | |
| color (not set) | no color | no color |
| | | |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui] | | |
| color = auto | no color | color |
| | | |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui] | | |
| color = yes | *no color* | color |
| | | |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| [ui] | | |
| color = no | no color | no color |
| | | |
+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
(if --color is specified, it always clobbers the setting in [ui])
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ touch empty1
$ hg add empty1
$ hg commit -m 'add empty1'
$ touch empty2
$ hg add empty2
$ hg commit -m 'add empty2'
$ hg up -C 0
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ touch empty3
$ hg add empty3
$ hg commit -m 'add empty3'
created new head
$ hg heads
changeset: 2:a1cb177e0d44
tag: tip
parent: 0:1e1d9c4e5b64
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: add empty3
changeset: 1:097d2b0e17f6
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: add empty2
$ hg merge 1
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
Before changeset 05257fd28591, we didn't notice the
empty file that came from rev 1:
$ hg status
M empty2
$ hg commit -m merge
$ hg manifest --debug tip
b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644 empty1
b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644 empty2
b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644 empty3
$ cd ..