On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 01:01:25PM +0200, Lars Schneider wrote: > > > On 26 Oct 2017, at 09:09, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Am 25.10.2017 um 14:19 schrieb Johannes Schindelin: > >> I envy you for the blessing of such a clean C++ source that you do not > >> have any, say, Unix shell script in it. Try this, and weep: > >> $ printf 'echo \\\r\n\t123\r\n' >a1 > >> $ sh a1 > >> a1: 2: a1: 123: not found > > > > I was bitten by that, too. For this reason, I ensure that shell scripts and Makefiles begin their life on Linux. Fortunately, modern editors on Windows, includ^Wand vi, do not force CRLF line breaks, and such files can be edited on Windows, too. > > Wouldn't this kind of .gitattributes setup solve the problem? > > * -text > *.sh text eol=lf > Yes, exactly. and for the snake-lovers: *.py text eol=lf