From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:35:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Gitattributes file is not respected when switching between branches
Message-ID: <8df2883f-ec3c-3446-2e06-207c93452332@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <CANYoZJng0GNZWU=eUEnXgVQ_NKQQOKM+mhJ9bsXMEJxxEhwQMw@mail.gmail.com>

On 12.09.16 14:55, Виталий Ищенко wrote:
> 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
Some more information may be needed, to help to debug.

Which version of Git are you using ?
What does

git ls-files --eol

say ?