A thing I learned about while researching the examples in that thread: if you set the color.ui setting to "auto", then that is used as the default for all the other color-enabling options - it turns out they'd added a few more since I last updated my config file.

Also, my favourite aliases are "cherrypick" for "cherry-pick" and "merge-tool" for "mergetool"; why they couldn't standardize their hyphenation convention, I don't know. :/