For some newer versions of git where by default color.ui=always.
The colored string captured can result in some special characters
(ASCI escape codes for coloring the terminal output) before and after the string.
e.g:
$ git branch > test.txt
$ vim test.txt
"
* ^[[32mmaster^[[m
dev_new_device^[[m"
The above escape codes will mess up a terminals color scheme when this
information is read from sysid and displayed on a terminal.
Use --no-color flag to fix this issue.
AndreiGrozav
Liviu.Iacob
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