diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 5a215b58cd12ae..7a6a09aea7ad24 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ commands:
           command: |
             node scripts/use-react-dist-tag
             # log a patch for maintainers who want to check out this change
-            git diff HEAD
+            git --no-pager diff HEAD
       - restore_cache:
           keys:
             - v2-yarn-sha-{{ checksum "yarn.lock" }}
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ jobs:
           command: |
             node scripts/use-typescript-dist-tag
             # log a patch for maintainers who want to check out this change
-            git diff HEAD
+            git --no-pager diff HEAD
       - install_js
       - run:
           name: Tests TypeScript definitions
diff --git a/scripts/use-react-dist-tag.js b/scripts/use-react-dist-tag.js
index e155e4838b102b..02a261738fd00c 100644
--- a/scripts/use-react-dist-tag.js
+++ b/scripts/use-react-dist-tag.js
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ async function main(distTag) {
   // https://github.com/enzymejs/enzyme/issues/2358
   packageJson.devDependencies['enzyme-adapter-react-16'] = 'npm:@eps1lon/enzyme-adapter-react-next';
 
-  // CircleCI seemingly times out if it has a newline diff at the end
+  // add newline for clean diff
   fs.writeFileSync(packageJsonPath, `${JSON.stringify(packageJson, null, 2)}${os.EOL}`);
 }
 
diff --git a/scripts/use-typescript-dist-tag.js b/scripts/use-typescript-dist-tag.js
index 8656a31d4d1184..68c63509481a0d 100644
--- a/scripts/use-typescript-dist-tag.js
+++ b/scripts/use-typescript-dist-tag.js
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ async function main(distTag) {
   packageJson.devDependencies.typescript = version;
   packageJson.resolutions['**/dtslint/typescript'] = version;
 
-  // CircleCI seemingly times out if it has a newline diff at the end
+  // add newline for clean diff
   fs.writeFileSync(packageJsonPath, `${JSON.stringify(packageJson, null, 2)}${os.EOL}`);
 }