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> I suspect blink is only implemented on the Mac's terminal, not in Linux-land.

...Lord, when did I get so old? :/

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100

I suspect it's really not a terminal issue but something about git. Or does a Terminal that doesn't interpret a command print it in clear text? I just get the string back, the same way I entered it.

What?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

It's definitely a terminal thing. The "bug" in git is that it doesn't strip out the control characters or reject the commit if the commit message contains non-text data.

You can set Xterm and Konsole to be VT100 compatible. I dunno about Gnome Terminal.

Anyway, they default to "linux" for more than a decade.

It does work in urxvt and konsole (and there's an option to turn it off). And as tempodox said, this is just VT100 stuff.