Control characters in git commands

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While working on a git-enabled project, it may happen sometimes that you modify a file and then see the changes using git diff or any other command then it shows control characters like “^M”. This may seem annoying.

You can hide it using:

git config core.whitespace cr-at-eol

On the successful completion of the above, commands like git diff and git show will stop showing these characters. But it will do on a per-project basis. If you want to do it globally, do:

git config --global core.whitespace cr-at-eol