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KHKristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
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Nov 5, 2025, 15:01 UTC
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2025, at 15:55, Lucas Seiki Oshiro wrote:
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>> I have seen something similar when using the Delta pager. I’m pretty
>> sure that it replaced a hyphen with a colon.
>
> It's a known bug in Delta:
>
> https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/1259
>
>> I don’t think I’ve seen this behavior with `git --no-pager`.
>
> I think it is a good idea to also see what happens when using another
> pager, for example, less (`git -c core.pager=less ...`) or cat
> (`git -c core.pager=cat ...`).
>
> Michael, can you run with those three mentioned options and see what
> happens? Last year I spent some hours trying to find the cause of the
> same bug in Git but then I found out that it was actually a bug in
> Delta.
Sorry, I didn’t see that he only replied to me previously:
On Tue, Nov 4, 2025, at 12:15, Michael Roach wrote:
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> Just when I thought I had considered all the factors before reporting 
> this, you got it.
> I am using Delta as my pager. My tests with other git versions were via 
> Docker, so there was no pager.
>
> I confirmed that using `git --no-pager grep` doesn't have this issue.
>
> Sorry for the bug report noise and thanks for figuring that out.
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