I think it's just piping it to another program. It's still giving you the same output, but sending you to a program meant for humans to be able to read text in

I think it's just piping it to another program. It's still giving you the same output, but sending you to a program meant for humans to be able to read text in a console, instead of just printing it all out. That said, I'm not entirely sure which git pipes to.