%C(auto) not working as expected

From: Tom Hale <tom@hale.ee>
Date: Oct 9, 2016, 05:43 UTC
Message-ID: <cb81631e-9623-9020-f955-ec215b493a50@hale.ee>

$ ~/repo/git/git --version git version 2.10.0.GIT

The `git-log` man page says:

`auto` alone (i.e. %C(auto)) will turn on auto coloring on the next placeholders until the color is switched again.

In this example:

http://i.imgur.com/y3yLxk7.png

I turn on auto colouring for green, but it seems that this is not being respected when piped through `cat`.

Am I misunderstanding the manual?

-- 
Tom Hale

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