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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: git diff encoding issue when running via Hyper-V
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On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:21:57 +0000, Dangling Pointer wrote:
> # echo "This is ^[[31mred^[[m text."
> 
> 
> 
> prints red colored "red" text. :)
> 
> 
> 
> # git diff &1> ../blah.txt
> 
> # cat ../blah.txt
> 
> 
> 
> shows:
> 
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> -setup_dirs()
> +setup_dirs2()
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> 
> but
> 
> 
> 
> # git diff
> 
> 
> 
> still emits the mangled output on stdout.

This seems to suggest that git does not use the default pager
for output ("cat" or "less"). When you pipe the output to one
of those programs, like

	% git diff | cat

or

	% git diff | less

is the output different? Does the Git documentation provide some
clue about the pager it uses for its diff functionality?

The problem becomes more clear now.

 		 	   		  

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Polytropon
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