git diff encoding issue when running via Hyper-V

[Michael B. Eichorn]

On Wed, 2015-09-30 at 18:35 +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> 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?

git(1) uses $PAGER unless overridden using $GIT_PAGER

> The problem becomes more clear now.
> 
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