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Re: How to avoid the ^M induced by Meld and Git

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KBKarl Brand <k.brand@erasmusmc.nl>
Date
Dec 12, 2012, 15:34 UTC
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On 12/12/12 15:57, Michael J Gruber wrote:
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> Karl Brand venit, vidit, dixit 11.12.2012 13:33:
>> Esteemed Git users,
>>
>> What i do:
>>
>> 1. Create a script.r using Emacs/ESS.
>> 2. Make some modifications to script.r with the nice diff gui, Meld
>> 3. Commit these modifications using git commit -am "my message"
>> 4. Reopen script.r in Emacs/ESS to continue working.
>>
>> The lines added (&/edited ?) using Meld all end with ^M which i
>> certainly don't want. Lines not added/edited with Meld do NOT end with ^M.
>
> What happens if you leave out step 3? If the same happens then Meld is
> the culprit. (Unless you've set some special options, git does not
> modify your file on commit, so this can't be git related.)
>

Leaving out step 3. results in exactly the same thing. Thus Git doesn't appear to be responsible for the ^M's. Thanks a lot for your effort on this and my apologies for not taking the care to dissect this more carefully as you suggested. Over to the Meld mailing list...

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>> There are plenty of posts around about these being line endings used for
>> windows which can appear when working on a script under a *nix OS which
>> has previously been edited in a Windows OS. This is not the case here -
>> everything is taking place on Ubuntu 12.04.
>>
>> FWIW: the directory is being synced by dropbox; and in Meld, Preferences
>>   > Encoding tab, "utf8" is entered in the text box.
>>
>> Current work around is running in a terminal: dos2unix /path/to/script.r
>> which strips the ^M's
>>
>> But this just shouldn't be necessary and I'd really appreciate the
>> reflections & advice on how to stop inducing these ^M's !
>>
>> With thanks,
>>
>> Karl
>>
>> (re)posted here as suggested off topic at SO:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13799631/create-script-r-in-emacs-modify-with-meld-git-commit-reopen-in-emacs-m
>>
>
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