How To Preserve Colors When Capturing Output From Git Commands?

I have a custom Git command implemented in Python that uses methods from the subprocess module to call git. I've noted that, depending on the method used, the output may or may not

Solution 1:

Many commands detect if they're not sending their output to a "terminal" and don't add the terminal-specific codes to display colors if not. That will be the case when you're missing the colors. Some git commands, not sure all of them, can take a --color argument - check the manpages.