diff --git a/.cargo/config.toml b/.cargo/config.toml
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.cargo/config.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[term]
+# Set `color` to `auto` in case the user has set it to `always`, which would
+# cause divergence in compiler output and break the trybuild tests.
+color = "auto"
diff --git a/tree_hash/tests/compile_fail/duplicate_variant_selector.rs b/tree_hash/tests/compile_fail/duplicate_variant_selector.rs
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index 0000000..3a0e738
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+++ b/tree_hash/tests/compile_fail/duplicate_variant_selector.rs
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+//! More than one selector in a variant-level `tree_hash` attribute must be rejected.
+use tree_hash_derive::TreeHash;
+
+#[derive(TreeHash)]
+#[tree_hash(enum_behaviour = "compatible_union")]
+enum Foo {
+    #[tree_hash(selector = "1", selector = "2")]
+    A(u8),
+}
+
+fn main() {}
diff --git a/tree_hash/tests/compile_fail/duplicate_variant_selector.stderr b/tree_hash/tests/compile_fail/duplicate_variant_selector.stderr
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+++ b/tree_hash/tests/compile_fail/duplicate_variant_selector.stderr
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+error: proc-macro derive panicked
+ --> tests/compile_fail/duplicate_variant_selector.rs:4:10
+  |
+4 | #[derive(TreeHash)]
+  |          ^^^^^^^^
+  |
+  = help: message: failed to parse variant attribute for "A": Duplicate field `selector`; note that `selector` must be an integer in 1..=127