Re: Git trims the last character of content from remotes

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2026, 15:51 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqldanyzh6.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <2d3f5504-f5dd-4171-96e8-b5633b6a1f5e@app.fastmail.com>

"Hugo Osvaldo Barrera" <hugo@whynothugo.nl> writes:

> When piping to cat or to a file, this sequence is not printed, so the output is
> fine.
>
> Is this a bug?

Please tell us more, if you are running Git 2.55 (or newer) and seeing the above behaviour.

It updated in 31e8fcabd8 (sideband: clear full line when printing remote messages, 2026-05-10) and was shipped in Git 2.55 on 2026-06-29.

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