Git replaced all of my LF with CRLF - How do I fix this?

Question

I just ran a

git add -A

on my first git project.

I got back about a thousand responses:

"warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF"

as it went through each file (Ruby files, some are gems).

I deleted my .git directory and tried to disable this default setting by typing this command:

git config core.autocrlf false

Then I tried to add the files again:

git add -A

But I got the same result. Help!

postimum related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2332349/best-practices-for-cross-platform-git-config — cregox, Oct 15 '12 at 12:41

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 25 '09 at 00:02

25

You likely have the core.autocrlf attribute set to true

It's a configuration attribute you can set:

To make sure that is set to false for all Git projects you can do:

git config --global core.autocrlf false

Hope this helps!

answered Sep 25 '09 at 00:02

kolrie

6

To qualify the last recommendation above, if the core.autocrlf flag is set in a particular project, it will shadow the global setting. Hence, it's still necessary to either set or remove the flag from a project that has it defined locally. – seh Nov 26 '09 at 15:41

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