Re: Gitattributes file is not respected when switching between branches

> Good day
>
> I faced following issue with gitattributes file (at least eol setting)
> when was trying to force `lf` mode on windows.
>
> We have 2 branches: master & dev. With master set as HEAD in repository
>
> I've added `.gitattributes` with following content to `dev` branch
>
> ```
> * text eol=lf
> ```
>
> Now when you clone this repo on other machine and checkout dev branch,
> eol setting is not respected.
> As a workaround you can rm all files except .git folder and do hard reset.
>
> Issue is reproducible on windows & unix versions. Test repo can be
> found on github
> https://github.com/betalb/gitattributes-issue
>
> master branch - one file without gitattributes
> feature-branch - .gitattributes added with eol=lf
> unix-feature-branch - .gitattributes added with eol=crlf
>
> Thanks,
> Vitalii