Hi A.J., On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, Harfoot A.J. wrote: > I'm new to Git, so apologies if this is already available, but after > some searching and experimenting I haven't been able to resolve it. > > I am running Git 2.6.4.windows.1 on Windows 7 64 bit. > > I have the global configuration variable core.autocrlf=true > > When I commit, the commit message template file is loaded into my > configured text editor (in this case Windows Notepad), however the > comment lines are terminated with LF, not CRLF, and so are not displayed > as new lines by Notepad. The core.autocrlf=true setting affects only Git's operation when it adds file contents to the index or writes files from the index. However, if you have `core.editor = notepad`, it should Just Work because there is a `notepad` helper that performs the LF<->CR/LF translation transparently. > In the opposite direction, the output of 'git log' redirected to a file > has all EOL characters set to LF, when originally entered as CRLF, so > automatic conversion is working Somehow I doubt that `git log` transforms CR/LF to LF... > I have tried to generate a custom commit message using the > commit.template variable, but the commented lines are appended to this > file, creating a mixture of EOL characters! I am afraid that the only way to keep that consistent would be to ensure that your commit.template has the same line endings as your editor produces. Ciao, Johannes -- 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