title: How to use ANSI 256-color in .gitconfig
body: <p>I am trying to set up custom colors for git status, as described <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12795790/how-to-colorize-git-status-output/12798205?noredirect=1#comment122018873_12798205">here</a></p>
  <p>While using predefined color names works:</p>
  <pre><code>[color &quot;status&quot;]
      changed = yellow normal
  </code></pre>
  <p>using ANSI 256 color codes does not work:</p>
  <pre><code>[color &quot;status&quot;]
      changed = &quot;\033[38;5;214m&quot; normal
  </code></pre>
  <p>I get an error:</p>
  <pre><code>fatal: bad config line 31 in file .gitconfig
  </code></pre>
  <p>I have tries using hex code, but that does not work either:</p>
  <pre><code>[color &quot;status&quot;]
      changed = &quot;#d70000&quot; normal
  </code></pre>
  <p>I suspect the <code>#</code> is interpreted as comment.</p>
  <p>My git version is <code>2.20.1</code></p>