diff --git a/.github/workflows/nix.yml b/.github/workflows/nix.yml
index 1ebed5d6..fd6edfb2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nix.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nix.yml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: cachix/install-nix-action@8aa03977d8d733052d78f4e008a241fd1dbf36b3 # v31.10.6
         with:
           extra_nix_config: |
-            extra-trusted-substituters = https://nix-community.cachix.org
+            extra-substituters = https://nix-community.cachix.org
             extra-trusted-public-keys = nix-community.cachix.org-1:mB9FSh9qf2dCimDSUo8Zy7bkq5CX+/rkCWyvRCYg3Fs=
 
       - name: Verify Nix dependency lockfile
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7f62d9f5..06ad3e9a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ All notable user-visible changes to Hunk are documented in this file.
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- Preserved Git log ANSI colors when `hunk pager` falls back to a plain-text terminal pager for non-diff output.
 - Capped inline context expansion source reads so huge files cannot freeze or exhaust memory when expanding unchanged lines.
 - Hardened plain-text pager startup so `PAGER` and `HUNK_TEXT_PAGER` shell metacharacters are passed as arguments instead of being evaluated implicitly.
 - Hardened terminal rendering against control-sequence injection from diffs, file paths, notes, expanded context, copied selections, and pager fallback output.
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index a77a3ed7..c5db9065 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     bun2nix.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
   };
   nixConfig = {
-    extra-trusted-substituters = [
+    extra-substituters = [
       "https://nix-community.cachix.org"
     ];
     extra-trusted-public-keys = [
diff --git a/src/core/pager.test.ts b/src/core/pager.test.ts
index 20eebf7d..16eeacf1 100644
--- a/src/core/pager.test.ts
+++ b/src/core/pager.test.ts
@@ -233,6 +233,32 @@ describe("plain text pager fallback", () => {
     expectNoUnsafeTerminalControls(written);
   });
 
+  test("preserves Git log SGR colors when sending plain text to a terminal pager", async () => {
+    const pager = new EventEmitter() as EventEmitter & { stdin: PassThrough };
+    pager.stdin = new PassThrough();
+    let written = "";
+    pager.stdin.on("data", (chunk) => {
+      written += String(chunk);
+    });
+
+    await pagePlainText(
+      `* \x1b[1;34mabc1234\x1b[m - \x1b[1;32m(HEAD -> main)\x1b[m${CSI_CLEAR_SCREEN}`,
+      { PAGER: "less -R" },
+      createPagerDeps({
+        spawnImpl() {
+          queueMicrotask(() => {
+            pager.emit("close", 0);
+          });
+          return pager as never;
+        },
+      }),
+    );
+
+    expect(written).toContain("\x1b[1;34mabc1234\x1b[m");
+    expect(written).toContain("\x1b[1;32m(HEAD -> main)\x1b[m");
+    expect(written).not.toContain(CSI_CLEAR_SCREEN);
+  });
+
   test("passes shell metacharacters as pager arguments instead of evaluating them", async () => {
     await pagePlainText(
       "plain text",
diff --git a/src/core/pager.ts b/src/core/pager.ts
index 9d4e5ee9..8ebe61fd 100644
--- a/src/core/pager.ts
+++ b/src/core/pager.ts
@@ -150,13 +150,13 @@ export async function pagePlainText(
     spawnImpl: spawn,
   },
 ) {
-  const safeText = sanitizeTerminalText(text);
-
   if (!deps.stdout.isTTY) {
-    deps.stdout.write(safeText);
+    deps.stdout.write(sanitizeTerminalText(text));
     return;
   }
 
+  const safeText = sanitizeTerminalText(text, { preserveAnsiStyle: true });
+
   const pagerSpec = resolveTextPagerSpec(env);
   const pagerCommand = pagerSpec.displayCommand;
 
diff --git a/src/lib/terminalText.test.ts b/src/lib/terminalText.test.ts
index c227722d..2128db60 100644
--- a/src/lib/terminalText.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/terminalText.test.ts
@@ -59,6 +59,31 @@ describe("sanitizeTerminalText", () => {
     expect(sanitizeTerminalText("alpha\n\tbeta")).toBe("alpha\n\tbeta");
   });
 
+  test("can preserve ANSI SGR styling while removing unsafe controls", () => {
+    const output = sanitizeTerminalText(
+      `plain\x1b[1;34mblue\x1b[m${OSC52_CLIPBOARD}${CSI_CLEAR_SCREEN}\x1b[2Kdone`,
+      { preserveAnsiStyle: true },
+    );
+
+    expect(output).toBe("plain\x1b[1;34mblue\x1b[mdone");
+  });
+
+  test("does not preserve non-SGR CSI sequences as ANSI styling", () => {
+    const output = sanitizeTerminalText("safe\x1b[2J\x1b[H\x1b[?25ltext", {
+      preserveAnsiStyle: true,
+    });
+
+    expect(output).toBe("safetext");
+  });
+
+  test("removes crafted style placeholder delimiters before restoring ANSI styling", () => {
+    const output = sanitizeTerminalText("safe\u{f0000}0\u{f0001}\x1b[31mred\x1b[m", {
+      preserveAnsiStyle: true,
+    });
+
+    expect(output).toBe("safe0\x1b[31mred\x1b[m");
+  });
+
   test("sanitizes span text while preserving styling metadata", () => {
     const spans = [
       { text: `before${OSC52_CLIPBOARD}`, fg: "#fff" },
diff --git a/src/lib/terminalText.ts b/src/lib/terminalText.ts
index 6c8ebdef..7f0384a5 100644
--- a/src/lib/terminalText.ts
+++ b/src/lib/terminalText.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ export interface SanitizeTerminalTextOptions {
   preserveNewlines?: boolean;
   /** Preserve horizontal tabs for text fields that intentionally support them. Defaults to true. */
   preserveTabs?: boolean;
+  /** Preserve ANSI SGR style sequences such as Git color output. Defaults to false. */
+  preserveAnsiStyle?: boolean;
 }
 
 const controlCodeRegex = /[\x00-\x1f\x7f-\x9f]/;
@@ -12,11 +14,16 @@ const sevenBitControlStrings =
   /\x1b(?:\][\s\S]*?(?:\x07|\x1b\\|\x9c)|[PX^_][\s\S]*?(?:\x1b\\|\x9c)|\[[0-?]*[ -/]*[@-~])/g;
 const c1ControlStrings = /[\x90\x98\x9d\x9e\x9f][\s\S]*?(?:\x07|\x1b\\|\x9c)/g;
 const c1Csi = /\x9b[0-?]*[ -/]*[@-~]/g;
+const preservedStyleTokenDelimiters = /[\u{f0000}\u{f0001}]/gu;
 
 /** Normalize untrusted terminal-bound text before rendering it in Hunk UI surfaces. */
 export function sanitizeTerminalText(
   text: string,
-  { preserveNewlines = true, preserveTabs = true }: SanitizeTerminalTextOptions = {},
+  {
+    preserveNewlines = true,
+    preserveTabs = true,
+    preserveAnsiStyle = false,
+  }: SanitizeTerminalTextOptions = {},
 ) {
   if (!controlCodeRegex.test(text)) {
     return text;
@@ -29,12 +36,32 @@ export function sanitizeTerminalText(
     : preserveTabs
       ? /[\x00-\x08\x0a-\x1f\x7f-\x9f]/g
       : /[\x00-\x1f\x7f-\x9f]/g;
+  const preservedStyles: string[] = [];
+  const preserveStyle = (sequence: string) => {
+    if (!preserveAnsiStyle || !/^\x1b\[[0-9;:]*m$/.test(sequence)) {
+      return "";
+    }
+
+    const token = `\u{f0000}${preservedStyles.length}\u{f0001}`;
+    preservedStyles.push(sequence);
+    return token;
+  };
 
-  return text
-    .replace(sevenBitControlStrings, "")
+  // Strip placeholder delimiters from untrusted input so authored text cannot spoof
+  // an internal token that later restores an ANSI sequence at the wrong location.
+  const tokenSafeText = preserveAnsiStyle ? text.replace(preservedStyleTokenDelimiters, "") : text;
+
+  let sanitized = tokenSafeText
+    .replace(sevenBitControlStrings, preserveStyle)
     .replace(c1ControlStrings, "")
     .replace(c1Csi, "")
     .replace(controlCharacters, "");
+
+  for (const [index, sequence] of preservedStyles.entries()) {
+    sanitized = sanitized.replaceAll(`\u{f0000}${index}\u{f0001}`, sequence);
+  }
+
+  return sanitized;
 }
 
 /** Sanitize a single terminal row or cell where newlines must never be preserved. */