Thanks for confirming. Is it possible to track this via a bug number ? It will help me to try out the fix when its available. On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 12:35:33AM +0530, Ashish Negi wrote: >> On windows : >> > git --version >> git version 2.14.2.windows.2 >> >> On linux : >> > git --version >> git version 2.7.4 >> >> I would like to understand the solution : >> If i understood it correctly : it removes file_name.txt from index, so >> git forgets about it. >> we then add the file again after changing encoding. This time, git >> takes it as utf-8 file and converts crlf to lf when storing it >> internally. >> Right ? > > Yes, exactly. > (In a coming release of Git there will be a "git add --renormalize <pathspec>" ) > >> >> Thank you for the support. >> > > Thanks for a clean bug report. > Actually it is a bug, I put it on my to do list > >