End of line

Did you know git can interfere with new line endings ?

This shows an example where files have multiple, differnt eol handling:

$ git ls-files --eol | grep csv
i/lf    w/lf    attr/                   data/switzerland_city_zip.csv
i/lf    w/      attr/                   export/tests/ref/export_all.csv.ref
i/crlf  w/crlf  attr/                   export/tests/ref/export_single.csv.ref

  • "i/<eolinfo>" eolinfo in the index

  • "w/<eolinfo>" eolinfo in the working tree

  • "attr/<eolattr>" eol git attribute (if any)

It is managed by git config –get core.autocrlf. Accepted values are:

  • true: convert to CRLF on commit, convert to LF on checkout

  • input: convert to CRLF on commit, don’t convert on checkout

  • false: don’t convert on commit, don’t convert on checkout

Set it to false if you are on Linux and wants full control on line endings:

git config set core.autocrlf false