Colors in git output?

You can try this.

git config --global --add color.ui true

Or you can create a simple ~/.gitconfig to start with. something like.

[gui]
    recentrepo = /Users/name/Workspace/repo/src/stable
[user]
    name = name
    email = [email protected]
[apply]
    whitespace = nowarn
[core]
    editor = vim
[color]
    diff = auto
    status = auto
    branch = auto

The example you posted is not supposed to be coloured; it is only because the blogging engine used by http://calip.so/ mistreats preformated text as code blocks, and highlights tokens as if it were program source.

For example, //github.com/cliftonc/calipso.git is coloured differently because // marks the start of a comment in many programming languages, and in/var/done/using are reserved keywords.