[JadedBlueEyes]

IIRC if you pipe the output to, e.g, xclip, or redirect to a file it will give the original diff format. Not as convenient, but still workable.

[leonheld]

I... did not know that! Yep yep that should do the trick for me. Thanks a lot, actually!

[mplanchard]

Most tools that do formatted output, if they’re well-behaved, should try to detect if their output is a pipe and if so, disable formatting.

Some examples that I can think of off the top of my head (in addition to git) are ripgrep and jq, both of which do the right thing and strip formatting.

[knome]

rather they should detect that output is a terminal and enable the coloring

[pca006132]

Wow I never knew this, I always just type `--no-ext-diff` when piping the output. Thanks!

[ramses0]

`... | cat` is sometimes really handy (and universal)

[lucasoshiro]

I use git -c core.pager = less, but piping seems to be a less verbose option... hmmm I'll try it

[rusk]

Pipe through cat should work