Changing encoding of a file : What should happen to CRLF in file ?

Hello

I have a cross platform project. I have a utf-16 file in it. I changed its encoding to urf-8 and committed. When i pulled the file in Linux, it shows that file is modified. This means that the commit which changed the encoding does not convert crlf to lf, when new format is text based (utf-8).

Steps to reproduce:

   In windows :

    Change encoding of file from utf-16 to utf-8.
    Commit the change.

   In linux:

    Pull your branch.
    You will see the issue of file being shown as modified even though
you have not used it.

If i change the file encoding in linux and commit. Then if i do git pull in windows, i don't see the issue. In linux, during committing i get warning : warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in …file_name..

Here are my configuration :

false

false

# Set the default behavior, in case people don't have core.autocrlf set.

* text=auto
*.vcxproj eol=crlf
*.sh      eol=lf

# Denote all files that are truly binary and should not be modified. *.exe binary *.dll binary *.pdb binary *.ico binary *.png binary *.jpg binary

git version 2.14.2.windows.2

I played around with core.autocrlf values like true and native, but that didn't help.

The behavior is inconsistent across platforms, and windows version is giving me problem.

Can someone suggest right settings for this ? Or is this a bug in Git.

Thanks