[git 0005126]: "git diff" broken

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5126 
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Reported By:                dam
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    git
Issue ID:                   5126
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2013-11-26 15:31 CET
Last Modified:              2013-11-26 15:31 CET
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Summary:                    "git diff" broken
Description: 
"git diff" is broken in 1.8.4.1,REV=2013.10.27 but works in the previous
1.8.3.4,REV=2013.07.28.

The output looks like this (not the escape-characters):

dam at login
[login]:/home/dam/mgar/pkg/openldap/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/openldap-2.4.38
> git diff
ESC[1mdiff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.inESC[m
ESC[1mindex b566233..0e9da64 100644ESC[m
ESC[1m--- a/Makefile.inESC[m
ESC[1m+++ b/Makefile.inESC[m
ESC[36m@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ESC[m ESC[mdistclean: veryclean FORCEESC[m
 ESC[m
 check: testESC[m
 test: FORCEESC[m
ESC[31m-        cd tests; make testESC[m
ESC[32m+ESC[m   ESC[32mcd tests; $(MAKE) testESC[m

It should look like this:

dam at experimental10s
[experimental10s]:/home/dam/mgar/pkg/openldap/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/openldap-2.4.38
> git diff
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index b566233..0e9da64 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ distclean: veryclean FORCE
 
 check: test
 test: FORCE
-       cd tests; make test
+       cd tests; $(MAKE) test

Please note that this is not a terminal issue.
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