I noticed that the piped output still prints the (HEAD -> ) :
git log --pretty=format:"%d*%B" --decorate-refs='refs/tags/*'
*bar
(tag: "123")*foo
git log --pretty=format:"%d*%B" --decorate-refs='refs/tags/*' > tmp.tmp
(HEAD -> branch)*bar
(tag: "123")*foo
I would expect the output that is printed to console, not what's
present in tmp.tmp