my ‘git log’ shows plain ESC sequences – how to get this right?

• http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-log-escape-symbols-shown-as-ESC-33-and-ESC-m-td7602089.html
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25332598/how-to-suppress-display-of-escape-sequences-in-diff

Until right now my LESS environment variable did not include “R” for passing through ANSI codes.

Solutions:

• Either I add “R” explicitly,
• or I start git w/o LESS in its environment:

$ env LESS=-MMiR git log
$ env -u LESS git log