Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 08:22:07 -0500 From: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r361318 - head/bin/ls Message-ID: <CACNAnaGwrKgS6wqoCpEHFbGaSynqSexGPS9J-Tzo4SC=Ud2UNQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <202005211259.04LCxh0C016512@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <202005210350.04L3ouOR031524@repo.freebsd.org> <202005211259.04LCxh0C016512@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 7:59 AM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > Author: kevans > > Date: Thu May 21 03:50:56 2020 > > New Revision: 361318 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/361318 > > > > Log: > > ls: fix a --color regression from r337956 > > > > The regression is in-fact that I flipped the default from never to auto. The > > incorrect impression was based on an alias that I failed to notice, > > installed by the Linux distribution that I used for testing compatibility > > here. Users that want the old default should be doing so with a shell alias > > as is done elsewhere, rather than making this decision in ls(1). > > > > Many thanks to rgrimes for pointing out the alias that I clearly overlooked > > that resulted in this; if you despised colors in your terminal from this, > > consider buying him a beer at the next venue that you see him at. > > Thanks Kyle, but this is likely to get me more rocks than beers :-) > FWIW- I received a not-insignificant number of valid complaints about the original default change because default color schemes are hard, and continued to receive an insignificant number of complaints as recent as a couple months ago (~2 years after the change?). This is considerably more flack than I expect to receive from other controversial proposals I've made and it was based on a fundamental misunderstanding of coreutils. Thanks, Kyle Evans
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