ANSI color in git is not displayed correctly

Question

Recently, I switched to SLES 11. I found a problem for git command. All the ANSI color could not be rendered. Instead, it shows the ANSI code like this:

*ESC

Answer 1

For me, this did not work:

git config --global core.pager less -R

So instead i appended the following to my ~/.gitconfig file

 [core]
     pager = less -R

To test it i did

git log --graph --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h%Creset%C(blue)%d%Creset %C(white bold)%s%Creset %C(white dim)(by %an %ar)%Creset" --all