Hi Torsten, at first I thought that those intermittent test failures were limited to Windows, but they are not: I can see it now in a build on 32-bit Linux. Full logs here: https://dev.azure.com/gitgitgadget/git/_build/results?buildId=1032&_a=summary&view=ms.vss-test-web.build-test-results-tab Excerpt from the failing test case: -- snip -- not ok 2 - renormalize CRLF in repo expecting success: echo "*.txt text=auto" >.gitattributes && git add --renormalize "*.txt" && cat >expect <<-\EOF && i/lf w/crlf attr/text=auto CRLF.txt i/lf w/lf attr/text=auto LF.txt i/lf w/mixed attr/text=auto CRLF_mix_LF.txt EOF git ls-files --eol | sed -e "s/ / /g" -e "s/ */ /g" | sort >actual && test_cmp expect actual + echo *.txt text=auto + git add --renormalize *.txt + cat + sort + sed -e s/ / /g -e s/ */ /g + git ls-files --eol + test_cmp expect actual + diff -u expect actual --- expect 2019-02-06 09:39:42.080733629 +0000 +++ actual 2019-02-06 09:39:42.088733629 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -i/lf w/crlf attr/text=auto CRLF.txt +i/crlf w/crlf attr/text=auto CRLF.txt i/lf w/lf attr/text=auto LF.txt -i/lf w/mixed attr/text=auto CRLF_mix_LF.txt +i/mixed w/mixed attr/text=auto CRLF_mix_LF.txt error: last command exited with $?=1 -- snap -- Any ideas? Johannes