Merge branch 'mm/color-auto-default'

Flip the default for color.ui to 'auto', which is what many
tutorials recommend new users to do.

* mm/color-auto-default:
  make color.ui default to 'auto'
  config: refactor management of color.ui's default value

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 7fd4035cb5..311fcebaf5 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -919,11 +919,12 @@ color.ui::
 	as `color.diff` and `color.grep` that control the use of color
 	per command family. Its scope will expand as more commands learn
 	configuration to set a default for the `--color` option.  Set it
-	to `always` if you want all output not intended for machine
-	consumption to use color, to `true` or `auto` if you want such
-	output to use color when written to the terminal, or to `false` or
-	`never` if you prefer Git commands not to use color unless enabled
-	explicitly with some other configuration or the `--color` option.
+	to `false` or `never` if you prefer Git commands not to use
+	color unless enabled explicitly with some other configuration
+	or the `--color` option. Set it to `always` if you want all
+	output not intended for machine consumption to use color, to
+	`true` or `auto` (this is the default since Git 1.8.4) if you
+	want such output to use color when written to the terminal.
 
 column.ui::
 	Specify whether supported commands should output in columns.