Hm, I feeled puzzled here. Even if I wouldn't recommend to use core.autocrlf, and prefer to use .gitattributes, the CRLF conversion should work under Git, but it doensn't seem to do so. Clone this repo: origin https://github.com/YueLinHo/TestAutoCrlf.git Try to see if LF or CRLF can be converted into CRLF, when core.autocrlf is true. Neither msysgit nor Git under Linux produces CRLF (?) Git under Mac OS produces the CRLF: both Git 2.0.0 and the latest msygit code base (7e872d24a9bd03), compiled under Mac OS What do I miss ? git --version git version 2.0.0 tb@Linux:~/EOL_Test/TestAutoCrlf$ t=MIX-more_LF.txt && rm -f $t && git -c core.eol=CRLF checkout $t && od -c $t 0000000 L i n e 1 \n l i n e ( 2 ) \r 0000020 \n l i n e 3 . \n t h i s i s 0000040 l i n e 4 \n l i n e 0000060 N o . 5 \n L i n e N u m b e 0000100 r 6 \n ============================================= $ git --version git version 1.9.2.msysgit.0.1206.g7e872d2 tb@msgit ~/EOL_test/TestAutoCrlf (master) $ t=MIX-more_LF.txt && rm -f $t && git -c core.eol=CRLF checkout $t && od -c $t 0000000 L i n e 1 \n l i n e ( 2 ) \r 0000020 \n l i n e 3 . \n t h i s i s 0000040 l i n e 4 \n l i n e 0000060 N o . 5 \n L i n e N u m b e 0000100 r 6 \n ============================================= tb@mac:~/EOL_Test/TestAutoCrlf> git --version git version 2.0.0.622.g9478935 tb@mac:~/EOL_Test/TestAutoCrlf> t=MIX-more_LF.txt && rm -f $t && git -c core.eol=CRLF checkout $t && od -c $t 0000000 L i n e 1 \r \n l i n e ( 2 ) 0000020 \r \n l i n e 3 . \r \n t h i s 0000040 i s l i n e 4 \r \n l i n 0000060 e N o . 5 \r \n L i n e N 0000100 u m b e r 6 \r \n ============================================== tb@mac:~/EOL_Test/TestAutoCrlf> t=MIX-more_LF.txt && rm -f $t && ~/projects/git/tb.msygit/git -c core.eol=CRLF checkout $t && od -c $t 0000000 L i n e 1 \r \n l i n e ( 2 ) 0000020 \r \n l i n e 3 . \r \n t h i s 0000040 i s l i n e 4 \r \n l i n 0000060 e N o . 5 \r \n L i n e N 0000100 u m b e r 6 \r \n -- 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