1. Emacs -q 2. M-x eshell 3. in eshell enter a git repository and eval (let ((eshell-buffer-maximum-lines 0)) (eshell-truncate-buffer)) 4. in eshell run 'git log -1 --stat' 5. run again 'git log -1 --stat' Step 4 should output lots of ^M as in this screenshot: