On Fri, Dec 29 2017, zefram@xxxxxxxx jotted: > My ~/.gitconfig sets color.ui=never, which should prevent attempts > at colouring output from all git commands. I do not have any git > configuration enabling colour in any situation (such as for specific > commands). But when a git bisect completes, the output identifying > the first bad commit includes escape sequences to colour the "commit > 3e6..." line yellow. Excerpt of strace output (with many irrelevant > lines omitted): > > 23851 write(1, "3e6fc602e433dbd76941ac0ef7a438a77fbe9a05 is the first bad commit\n", 65) = 65 > 23851 open("/home/zefram/.gitconfig", O_RDONLY) = 3 > 23851 read(3, "[user]\n\tname = Zefram\n\temail = zefram@xxxxxxxx\n\tsigningkey = 0x8E1E1EC1\n\n[color]\n\tui = never\n", 4096) = 93 > 23851 write(1, "\33[33mcommit 3e6fc602e433dbd76941ac0ef7a438a77fbe9a05\33[m\n", 56) = 56 > > Given the configuration, that line should be free of escape sequences. > > I'm mainly using git 2.1.4 via Debian, but I've also > reproduced this problem with the latest from git.git (commit > 1eaabe34fc6f486367a176207420378f587d3b48, tagged v2.16.0-rc0). This issue is a bug, but has nothing do do with bisect per-se, but is a bug in diff-tree, compare these two: git -c color.ui=never diff-tree --pretty --stat HEAD git -c color.ui=never show --pretty --stat HEAD diff-tree will incorrectly show colored output here despite ui.color=never.