On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:47:18PM +0000, Yagnatinsky, Mark wrote: > Wait a second... suppose a file is committed with CRLF line endings. > You're saying that even if I have autocrlf set to "input" or "auto", the file will never get "converted" to LF format unless I explicitly renormalize? Yes. > That sounds like a fairly sensible behavior, but it's not what I've observed in the past at all! > There have been plenty of times when I had "autocrlf" set to input which resulted in me changing line endings on commit I had no intention of changing! > Indeed, the whole reason I was looking at the git docs recently is that this happened again and I was trying to make it stop happening! > Or is that not what you meant? > Only changing core.autocrlf to input will not change the line endings in the repo. That is intentional and allows to to keep core.autocrlf and jump force-and-back in the history by checking out older versions or later versions. That is why I would recommend a .gitattributes file, which travels with the commits and through push and pull. My feeling is that the docemntation for core.autocrlf should be: This setting is deprecated. Use a .gitattributes file instead, and please see the documentation. But that is clearly debatable.
