Subject: [PATCH 1/7] docs: describe ANSI 256-color mode

From: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:15:31 -0500

Our color specifications have supported the 256-color ANSI
extension for years, but we never documented it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
---
I have no clue which terminals do and don't support this. I would hope
the answer is "everything" by now, but I have seen some pretty awful
terminal emulators in my time.

 Documentation/config.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 9220725..f615a5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -839,6 +839,10 @@ accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`,
 `blink` and `reverse`.  The first color given is the foreground; the
 second is the background.  The position of the attribute, if any,
 doesn't matter.
++
+Colors (foreground and background) may also be given as numbers between
+0 and 255; these use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that not all
+terminals may support this).
 
 color.diff::
 	Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches.
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2.2.0.rc2.402.g4519813