Stop adding ^M characters

[Arthur Goldberg]

According to `git diff`,  control-M characters appeared at the ends of all lines I inserted in a file I'm editing with BBEdit. See screenshot.

How do I stop doing this?

Thanks

Arthur

[TJ Luoma]

I believe those are line endings for Windows line-endings.

When editing a file, see if you see "Windows (CRLF)" at the bottom of the window 'chrome'.

If so, click on it and change it to "Unix (LF)".

Git will be happier then.

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[David Kelly]

On Apr 4, 2021, at 6:07 PM, Arthur Goldberg <artgo...@gmail.com> wrote:

According to `git diff`,  control-M characters appeared at the ends of all lines I inserted in a file I'm editing with BBEdit. See screenshot.

How do I stop doing this?

Original Apple/Mac convention was <CR> (Control-M) line endings. 

Unix used <LF> (Control-J) line endings. 

CP/M and Windows used <CR> <LF> line endings.

BBEdit is pretty smart about continuing to use whatever it finds. Has a default for new files. 

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[Sam Hathaway]

If you use Git to collaborate with Windows users, there is some additional complexity to consider:

https://www.edwardthomson.com/blog/git_for_windows_line_endings.html

Cheers,
-sam

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[Arthur Goldberg]

Thanks everyone. Yes, this only happens with some files, and always with them. 

I have followed the Git for Windows: Line Endings advice, creating .gitattributes.

I don't "see "Windows (CRLF)" at the bottom of the window 'chrome'."  I'm editing Python & see this:

[Bruce Van Allen]

On 6 Apr 2021, at 16:31, Arthur Goldberg wrote:

> I don't "see "Windows (CRLF)" at the bottom of the window 'chrome'." I'm
> editing Python & see this:

Preferences -> Appearance -> Text status bar items: _√_ Text Encoding

Thanks,

- Bruce

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[Arthur Goldberg]

Thanks Bruce

I fixed it. Now I can change lines without 'git diff' complaining about bad line endings!

The setting is actually

Preferences -> Appearance -> Text status bar items: _√_ Line break type

Regards

Arthur