From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:24:21 GMT Subject: Re: [BUG] attribute "eol" with "crlf" Message-ID: <7v39ckgkwq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Ralf Thielow writes: > Basicly I want to force the line endings of the files on my > project. :/ You need to fix the data you have recorded with CRLF in the repository if you are using eol=crlf, which means "This file wants to ..." (see below; I do not want to type the same thing again). > 2011/12/16 Junio C Hamano : >> Ralf Thielow writes: >> >>> So i have to commit ".gitattributes" and everything is fine for me after!? >> >> No.  Sorry if I was unclear, but I do not see which part was unclear in >> what I wrote, so... >> >>>> The sequence adds "test\r\n" file without .gitattributes to have the >>>> repository record that exact byte sequence for the file. But then later >>>> goes around and says "This file wants to express the end of line with CRLF >>>> on the filesystem, so please replace LF in the repository representation >>>> to CRLF when checking out, and replace CRLF in the working tree to LF when >>>> checking in". >>>> >>>> So it is not surprising that "\r\n" coming from the repository is replaced >>>> to "\r\r\n" when checked out. As far as the repository data is concerned, >>>> that line has a funny byte with value "\r" at the end, immediately before >>>> the line terminator "\n". >>>> >>>> What you said is _technically_ correct in that sense. >>>> ...