Hi Brian, good question! There is a .gitattributes file, all the files affected have these attributes *.py text diff=python regards, martin On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 7:14 PM brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2020-06-09 at 19:52:42, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > Hi git list, > > > > long time no see! I am here to ask for a sanity check. I'm on OSX. > > Checking out a repository that has an un-controlled mix of line > > endings. Mostly linux-style, but some Windows CRLF endings. > > > > A few tests. > > - I set core.autocrlf=input globally --> a fresh clone doesn't have a > > clean status files look modified right after a clone) > > - set core.autocrlf=false globally --> a fresh clone doesn't have a > > clean status > > - set core.autocrlf=true globally --> a fresh clone doesn't have a clean status > > > > This is git v2.23.0 from Homebrew. > > > > Am I doing something wrong? Can git work sanely on a mixed endings > > repo without having to fix the world first? > > > > ... I do strive to fix the world (and this small repository), as we > > all do, but it should not be a preconditions before git behaves > > sanely. > > Does this repository have a .gitattributes file and if so, is there any > correlation between the patterns in that file and the modified files? > -- > brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US > OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204 -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx - ask interesting questions ~ http://linkedin.com/in/martinlanghoff - don't be distracted ~ http://github.com/martin-langhoff by shiny stuff