Avoid escape characters in GIT

The first one is to change the pager to “more”.

git config --global core.pager more

The second one is to append an additional command with “less -r”.

git diff --color | less -r
git log -p --color | less -r

And you get a nice colored output.

Here is another solution which is more portable to my mind, and it is the one I use.

git config --global core.pager "less -r"

This directly appends the modified less command when git pager is invocated to print correctly escape characters.

Avoid escape characters in GIT