On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:36:23AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > This is the only remaining attribute that is commonly
> > supported (at least by xterm) that we don't support. Let's
> > add it for completeness.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
> > ---
> > This was mostly for fun.  I can't think of a way in which it would be
> > useful, and I'm not sure how compelling completionism is as an argument
> > for inclusion. I'm OK if we drop this one.
> 
> It indeed is fun and it even makes sense in this context:
> 
>     $ ./git -c diff.color.old='red strike' show

Ooh, I hadn't thought of that. It's a bit noisy for my tastes in a
line-oriented diff, but with --color-words, it actually helps quite a
bit (try it on the documentation patch from this series, for example).

-Peff
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