diff --git a/cmd/diff.go b/cmd/diff.go
index 1e24cc4..f07b398 100644
--- a/cmd/diff.go
+++ b/cmd/diff.go
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ func init() {
 	diffCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&check, "check", false, "exit non-zero if whitespace errors are found (equivalent to git diff --check)")
 
 	diffCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&ignoreEmpty, "ignore-empty", false, "ignore empty diffs")
-	diffCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&noColor, "no-color", false, "disable color output")
 	diffCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&short, "shortstat", false, "show only the number of changed files, insertions, and deletions")
 	diffCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&nameOnly, "name-only", false, "show only names of changed files")
 
@@ -77,6 +76,7 @@ func diffCmdValidArgsFunc(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string, toComplete string)
 
 func diffFunc(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 	verbose := viper.GetBool("verbose")
+	noColor := viper.GetBool("no-color")
 	ctx := ctxhelper.WithVerbose(context.Background(), verbose)
 
 	repoDirs, err := clt.GetDirs(ctx, ".")
diff --git a/cmd/log.go b/cmd/log.go
index b2c1e41..050cf93 100644
--- a/cmd/log.go
+++ b/cmd/log.go
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ import (
 
 var (
 	oneline  bool
-	noColor  bool
 	maxCount int
 )
 
@@ -20,7 +19,6 @@ func init() {
 	RootCmd.AddCommand(logCmd)
 
 	logCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&oneline, "oneline", false, "show each commit on a single line")
-	logCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&noColor, "no-color", false, "disable color output")
 	logCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&ignoreEmpty, "ignore-empty", false, "ignore empty repositories")
 	logCmd.Flags().IntVarP(&maxCount, "max-count", "n", 0, "limit the number of commits shown per repo (0 means no limit)")
 }
@@ -77,6 +75,7 @@ func logCmdValidArgsFunc(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string, toComplete string) (
 
 func logFunc(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 	verbose := viper.GetBool("verbose")
+	noColor := viper.GetBool("no-color")
 	ctx := ctxhelper.WithVerbose(context.Background(), verbose)
 
 	repoDirs, err := clt.GetDirs(ctx, ".")