Re: Git Config Question

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

(+cc: Eyvind Bernhardsen, Finn Arne Gangstad)

Hi!

Shilpa Kulkarni wrote:

> 2. Person Y checks in code (commit & push). Checks in file a, b.
>
> 3. Person X does a 'git pull origin master'.
>
> Pull succeeds - however
> 'git status' shows file a, b as modified even though person X has done
> nothing with these files.
[...]
> Someone has recommended we all use
> core.safecrlf=false
> core.autocrlf=false
> But this would require running dos2unix cmd while running scripts on
> linux which seems like an overhead.

I have not kept up with the latest best practices.  But I suspect
something like the following would work:

1. In .git/config, ~/.gitconfig, or /etc/gitconfig, on Windows:

	[core]
		autocrlf = true

See core.autocrlf in git-config(1).  I think git for windows does this
automatically.

2. In .git/config, ~/.gitconfig, or /etc/gitconfig, on Unix:

	[core]
		autocrlf = input

3. Convert line-endings in the tracked content.  Something like:

	$ git status; # make sure there are no untracked files present
	$ git rm -fr --cached .; # stop tracking all files
	$ git add .; # fix line-endings on all files
	$ git commit; # record that you have done so

4. Convert line-endings in the work tree.  Something like:

	$ git rm -fr .; # remove all tracked files
	$ git checkout HEAD -- .; # fetch them back again

5. In .gitattributes, something like:

	*	auto
	*.sh	crlf
	*.[ch]	crlf
	*.jpg	-crlf

See gitattributes(5) for details.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan