On 2017-10-03 19:23, Robert Dailey wrote: > On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> wrote: >> The short version is, that the instructions on Github are outdated. >> This is the official procedure (since 2016, Git v2.12 or so) >> But it should work even with older version of Git. >> >> $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes >> $ git read-tree --empty # Clean index, force re-scan of working directory >> $ git add . >> $ git status # Show files that will be normalized >> $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization" > > Is the way I did it that worked also a valid solution? Or did it only > work accidentally? Again the command I ran that worked is: > > $ git rm -r --cached . && git add . (Both should work) To be honest, from the documentation, I can't figure out the difference between $ git read-tree --empty and $ git rm -r --cached . Does anybody remember the discussion, why we ended up with read-tree ?