From: Raimund Bauer Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:34:42 GMT Subject: Re: autocrlf Message-ID: <1179484482.6453.19.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200705181111.53823.andyparkins@gmail.com> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:11 +0100, Andy Parkins wrote: > Hello, > > I've just been playing with gitattributes and was trying the crlf attribute. > The behaviour of this and/or core.autocrlf is not as I was expecting. > > What I had imagined was that I could use .gitattributes to tell git which > files in my tree were text. Then the line endings on checkout would be set > as appropriate to my platform, and on check in set to LF. > > What actually happens is that any file with the crlf attribute is being > checked out with LF expanded to CRLF (I'm running Linux of course), which is > completely not what I wanted. you need to set core.autoCrlf=input I had the same problem some time ago ... > Andy -- best regards Ray