Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux?

[hasen j <hasan.aljudy@gmail.com>]

On 5 May 2010 04:01, mat <matthieu.stigler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have two git projects:
> -one (A) with linux people only
> -one (B) with someone using windows
>
> As we had "end of line" problems with the person using windows (B), I used:
>
> git config --global core.autocrlf true
>
> Following advices from:
> http://help.github.com/dealing-with-lineendings/
>
> So everything now if fine with project B, but now some problems using project (A): I wanted to copy the whole project file to another dir, and now it is complaining about the change, signaling warning:
>
> CRLF will be replaced by LF in .../A.
>
> So I don't know exactly what I should do...Should I change all the CRLF from project A, but people will have also problems, or can I switch the config, once I'm using project A and B? It is not so clear in my mind and I would appreciate any advice!!
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Matthieu Stigler

I personally find that autocrlf causes more confusion than it solves problems.

I've yet to see a text editor on windows that can't handle \n line
endings. (Notepad doesn't count)

Just keep the project with \n line endings, disable autocrlf, and make
sure that people are aware of this.