Re: git diff: meaning of ^M at line ends ?

["Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>]

On 15.05.18 20:04, Frank Schäfer wrote:
> Am 14.05.2018 um 20:13 schrieb Torsten Bögershausen:
>> ^M is the representation of a "Carriage Return" or CR.
>> Under Linux/Unix/Mac OS X a line is terminated with a single
>> "line feed", LF.
>>
>> Windows typically uses CRLF at the end of the line.
>> "git diff" uses the LF to detect the end of line,
>> leaving the CR alone.
>>
>> Nothing to worry about.
> Thanks, I already suspected something like that.
> Has this behavior been changed/added recently ?

That is a good question.
There is, to my knowledge, no intentional change.

> I didn't observe it before, although the project I'm currently looking
> into has always been using CR+LF...

Do you mean that older versions did behave differently ?
Do you have a version number for the "old" handling ?

> 
> Why does the ^M only show up in '+' lines ?
> When changing the line end from CR+LF to LF, the diff looks like this:

> 
> -blahblah
> +blahblah
> 
> But I would expect it to be
> 
> -blahblah^M
> +blahblah

May be this helps (I haven't tested it) ?
git config  core.whitespace cr-at-eol