When I saved in Windows 7, git diff shows all the lines with ^M

Question

I used Ubuntu to upload a repository to github.

I downloaded to windows 7 and using msysgit. When I saved some files in Windows without any changes.

When I do git status, they are listed as modified.

When I do git diff, all the line has ^M at the end.

What is this ^M and how can I ignore this?

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE

I have autocrlf = false in .gitconfig, because I want to keep lf rather than auto or crlf.

ceth · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-21 11:43:18Z

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Try to use autocrlf option in git config.

git config core.autocrlf true

answered May 21, 2011 at 11:43

ceth

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why 'git config core.autocrlf true' solve the problem but not 'git config --global core.autocrlf true'?
– shin
Commented May 21, 2011 at 12:02
--global apply to your system, without '--global' - current repository
– ceth
Commented May 21, 2011 at 12:09

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:22:04Z

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The ^M symbol is the Windows end-of-line encoding.

The following should fix it:

git config --global core.autocrlf true

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