My vendor gave me a tarball with all CRLF eol's. I'm using the vendor-branch overlay method (git ls-files -z | xargs -0 rm -f && tar -xvzf tarfile.tar.gz). How do I convert the eol's to LF? I tried this: vi .git/attributes SRC/*/* text (convert these to LF eol on commit) $ git config core.eol lf (convert "text" attr files to LF eol on checkout) $ git add . -A $ git commit -m'convert eol' (should convert CRLF to LF) $ git checkout otherbranch (change worktree) $ git checkout vendorbranch (checkout worktree from commit to get LF version) $ git reset HEAD^ (remove commit but keep worktree LF version) $ git diff (still CRLF) $ git status (still show everything as modified due to CRLF) v/r, neal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html