pretty: use format_commit_context.auto_color as colorbool

When we see "%C(auto)" as a format placeholder, we evaluate the "color" field of our pretty_print_context to decide whether we want color. The auto_color field of format_commit_context then stores the boolean result of want_color(), telling us the yes/no of whether we want color. But the resulting field is passed to various functions which expect a git_colorbool, like diff_get_color(), that will then pass it to want_color() again. It's not wrong to do so, since want_color() is idempotent. But it makes it harder to reason about the types, since we sometimes confuse colorbools and strict booleans. Let's instead store auto_color as the original colorbool itself. We'll have to make sure it is passed through want_color() when it is evaluated, but there is only one such spot (right next to where we assign it!). Every other caller just ends up passing it to get diff_get_color() either directly or through another helper. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Jeff King committed Sep 16, 2025 at 16:22 UTC 5e9ddd3c0652ad4e16cc33525d611e23f61dc6a5
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pretty.c
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@@ -1455,8 +1455,8 @@ static size_t format_commit_one(struct strbuf *sb, /* in UTF-8 */
1455 switch (placeholder[0]) {
1456 case 'C':
1457 if (starts_with(placeholder + 1, "(auto)")) {
1458 - c->auto_color = want_color(c->pretty_ctx->color);
1459 - if (c->auto_color && sb->len)
1458 + c->auto_color = c->pretty_ctx->color;
1459 + if (want_color(c->auto_color) && sb->len)
1460 strbuf_addstr(sb, GIT_COLOR_RESET);
1461 return 7; /* consumed 7 bytes, "C(auto)" */
1462 } else {