On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:04:27PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > I'm a bit surprised that the default for --decorate depends on the > output being a terminal. Decorations (and colors as well) are for humans, and humans read the terminal. > Thanks for your help, I will think about what I want to do. Just using > --no-decorate will work, but isn't nice either. Will test if just > throwing away all those tags from linux-next will make this already > better. Note that you can disable decorations by setting the 'log.decorate' configuration variable to false.