Most tools that do formatted output, if they’re well-behaved, should try to detect if their output is a pipe and if so, disable formatting. Some examples that

Most tools that do formatted output, if they’re well-behaved, should try to detect if their output is a pipe and if so, disable formatting. Some examples that I can think of off the top of my head (in addition to git) are ripgrep and jq, both of which do the right thing and strip formatting.