As per discussion on msysgit user group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/msysgit/U_a982_a3rc/discussion we found the following patch is required to get rid of weird terminal characters for other tools such as GitExtensions for Windows ---8<--- diff --git a/sideband.c b/sideband.c index d5ffa1c..bd3e5a8 100644 --- a/sideband.c +++ b/sideband.c @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ int recv_sideband(const char *me, int in_stream, int out) memcpy(buf, PREFIX, pf); term = getenv("TERM"); - if (term && strcmp(term, "dumb")) + if (isatty(out) && term && strcmp(term, "dumb")) suffix = ANSI_SUFFIX; else suffix = DUMB_SUFFIX; ---8<--- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html