Re: Why doesn't git core.eol=lf work?

From: Jason Cho <jason11choca@proton.me>
Date: Jul 12, 2025, 10:56 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <20250712103030.GA30568@tb-raspi4>

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> But now to the real stuff:
> It may be that your file had been commited with LF or mixed CRLF into the repo.
> In this case will Git not change CRLF into LF at checkout.
> What does
> git ls-files --eol license_header.txt
> give you ?

$ git ls-files --eol license_header.txt i/crlf w/crlf attr/ license_header.txt

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> Beside that, I would recommend to set up a .gitatrributes file
> and add it to the repo.
> echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes
> 
> git add --renormalize .
> git commit -m "Normalize line endings"

I am building a tool to analyze codebases, such as which function is moved from one file to another. Different line endings fail string equality.

Admittedly I can make a local commit to normalize all files. But it's best if a simple config `core.eol` can work.