On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 01:41:42PM +0530, Ashish Negi wrote: > > If you commit the file, it will be stored with LF in the index, > This is what i believe is not happening. > > Lets do this with a public repository and steps which are reproducible. > I have created a repo : https://github.com/ashishnegi/git_encoding > > If you clone this repo in linux and run `git status`, you will find > that file is modified. This is what what I get: git ls-files --eol i/lf w/lf attr/text=auto .gitattributes i/crlf w/crlf attr/text=auto file_name.txt (And you get the same, I think) Newer versions of Git (>=2.10) will -not- treat file_name.txt as changed, older versions do. What does "git --version" say on your Linux machine ? However, if you want to fix it, you want to either end up with A) git ls-files --eol i/lf w/lf attr/text=auto .gitattributes i/lf w/crlf attr/text=auto file_name.txt or B) git ls-files --eol i/lf w/lf attr/text=auto .gitattributes i/crlf w/crlf attr/-text file_name.txt (The "attr/-text" means "don't change the line endings") Both A) or B) will work, typically A) is preferred. You should be able to achive A) : git rm --cached file_name.txt && git add file_name.txt rm 'file_name.txt' warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in file_name.txt. The file will have its original line endings in your working directory. git ls-files --eol i/lf w/lf attr/text=auto .gitattributes i/lf w/crlf attr/text=auto file_name.txt [snip the rest]