The same ^M is shown in the output of tutorial https://www.geekality.net/2017/08/23/setting-up-gpg-signing-for-gitgithub-on-windows/ at item "4. Verify commit was signed" I confirm the output is right (no ^M characters) with commands git verify-commit HEAD git -p verify-commit HEAD git verify-commit --v HEAD git verify-commit --raw HEAD and wrong (ending with ^M characters) with git log --show-signature -1 HEAD git -p log --show-signature -1 HEAD I need gpg version 2.1 or greater to generate a gpg key for my windows system, as stated by the github documentation: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-gpg-key/ that saves my keys in ~/AppData/Roaming/GnuPG. 2018-03-05 15:29 GMT+01:00 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>: > Hi Larry, > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2018, Larry Hunter wrote: > >> There is bug using "git log --show-signature" in my installation >> >> git 2.16.2.windows.1 >> gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.4 >> libgcrypt 1.8.2 > > The gpg.exe shipped in Git for Windows should say something like this: > > $ gpg --version > gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.22 > Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > > Home: ~/.gnupg > Supported algorithms: > Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA > Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, > CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 > Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 > Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 > > Therefore, the GNU Privacy Guard version you use is not the one shipped > and supported by the Git for Windows project. > >> that prints (with colors) an extra ^M (carriage return?) at the end of >> the gpg lines. As an example, the output of "git log --show-signature >> HEAD" looks like: >> >> $ git log --show-signature HEAD >> commit 46c490188ebd216f20c454ee61108e51b481844e (HEAD -> master) >> gpg: Signature made 03/04/18 16:53:06 ora solare Europa occidentale^M >> gpg: using RSA key ...^M >> gpg: Good signature from "..." [ultimate]^M >> Author: ... <...> >> Date: Sun Mar 4 16:53:06 2018 +0100 >> ... >> >> To help find a fix, I tested the command "git verify-commit HEAD" that >> prints (without colors) the same lines without extra ^M characters. >> >> $ git verify-commit HEAD >> gpg: Signature made 03/04/18 16:53:06 ora solare Europa occidentale >> gpg: using RSA key ... >> gpg: Good signature from "..." [ultimate] > > My guess is that the latter command simply does not go through the pager > while the former does. > > Do you see the ^M in the output of `git -p verify-commit HEAD`? > > Ciao, > Johannes