Sorry for delay. ".gitattributes" indeed is not present in "master", but this is intentionally It is placed only in following 2 branches: feature-branch unix-feature-branch This is how flow looks on windows $ git --version git version 2.9.3.windows.1 vitalii.ishchenko@DESKTOP-9TC9UPB MINGW64 /c/work/repos/gitattributes (master) $ git ls-files --eol i/lf w/crlf attr/ testfile-crlf.txt vitalii.ishchenko@DESKTOP-9TC9UPB MINGW64 /c/work/repos/gitattributes (master) $ git checkout feature-branch Switched to branch 'feature-branch' Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/feature-branch'. vitalii.ishchenko@DESKTOP-9TC9UPB MINGW64 /c/work/repos/gitattributes (feature-branch) $ git ls-files --eol i/lf w/lf attr/text eol=lf .gitattributes i/lf w/crlf attr/text eol=lf testfile-crlf.txt On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 12.09.16 21:35, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: >> On 12.09.16 14:55, Виталий Ищенко wrote: >>> Good day >>> >>> I faced following issue with gitattributes file (at least eol setting) >>> when was trying to force `lf` mode on windows. >>> >>> We have 2 branches: master & dev. With master set as HEAD in repository >>> >>> I've added `.gitattributes` with following content to `dev` branch >>> >>> ``` >>> * text eol=lf >>> ``` >>> >>> Now when you clone this repo on other machine and checkout dev branch, >>> eol setting is not respected. >>> As a workaround you can rm all files except .git folder and do hard reset. >>> >>> Issue is reproducible on windows & unix versions. Test repo can be >>> found on github >>> https://github.com/betalb/gitattributes-issue >>> >>> master branch - one file without gitattributes >>> feature-branch - .gitattributes added with eol=lf >>> unix-feature-branch - .gitattributes added with eol=crlf >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Vitalii >> Some more information may be needed, to help to debug. >> >> Which version of Git are you using ? >> What does >> >> git ls-files --eol >> >> say ? > Obs, All information was in the email. > > tb@xxx:/tmp/gitattributes-issue> git ls-files --eol > i/lf w/lf attr/ testfile-crlf.txt > tb@xxx:/tmp/gitattributes-issue> ls -al > total 8 > drwxr-xr-x 4 tb wheel 136 Sep 12 21:38 . > drwxrwxrwt 19 root wheel 646 Sep 12 21:38 .. > drwxr-xr-x 13 tb wheel 442 Sep 12 21:38 .git > -rw-r--r-- 1 tb wheel 60 Sep 12 21:38 testfile-crlf.txt > tb@xxx:/tmp/gitattributes-issue> > > Could it be that you didn't commit the file ".gitattributes" ? > This could help: > git add .gitattributes && git commit -m "Add .gitattributes" > > > > > > >