On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 07:36:19PM +0000, Cliff Schomburg wrote: > I have an open Git for Windows issue here: > https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2285 > > "git log" works as expected from the command prompt. But when I execute it via C# Process class and read from Standard Output, the refs are missing. > > Is anyone familiar with this issue? Any idea why the output to CMD and STDOUT would be different? Decorations, like color and refs pointing to a commit, are for humans, and humans read the terminal. If the command's output doesn't go to a terminal, then no such decorations are shown by default. Try invoking 'git log --decorate'; or, better yet, use your custom '--format=', especially if you intend to parse the output,