Windows git warning LF will be replaced by CRLF is that warning tail backward

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env    Windows 7   msysgit     Wheng I git commit  it says    warning  LF will be replaced by CRLF     Is this warning tail backward  I edit file in Windows  the end of line is CRLF  just like this pic   And git changes it to LF for committing to repo  So I think the correct warning is     warning  CRLF will be replaced by LF

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After I set core autocrlf true I was getting  LF will be replaced by CRLF   note not  CRLF will be replaced by LF   when I was git adding  or perhaps it was it on git commit   edited files in windows on a repository  that does use LF  that was checked out before I set core autocrlf true   I made a new checkout with core autocrlf true and now I m not getting those messages

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git config --global core autocrlf false works well for global settings   But if you are using Visual Studio  might also need to modify  gitattributes for some type of projects  e g c  class library application     remove line   text auto

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--Update on 9th July--- Removed  quot It is correct and accurate quot  as commented by  mgiuca        NO  It is NOT talking about your files currently with CRLF  It is instead talking about files with LF  It should read   warning   If you check it out or clone to another folder with your current core autocrlf configuration  LF will be replaced by CRLF The file will have its original line endings in your  current  working directory   This picture should explain what it means

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If you are using Visual Studio 2017  2019  you can    open the main  gitignore  update or remove anothers  gitignore files in others projects in the solution  paste the below code     core   autocrlf   false  filter  lfs    required   true  clean   git-lfs clean --  f  smudge   git-lfs smudge --  f  process   git-lfs filter-process

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Do just simple thing   Open git-hub  Shell  and navigate to the directory file belongs to  cd  a b c      Execute dos2unix  sometime dos2unix exe   Try commit now  If you get same error again  Perform all above steps except instead of dos2unix  do unix2dox  unix2dos exe sometime

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YES the warning is backwards   And in fact it shouldn t even be a warning in the first place  Because all this warning is saying  but backwards unfortunately  is that the CRLF characters in your file with Windows line endings will be replaced with LF s on commit  Which means it s normalized to the same line endings used by  nix and MacOS    Nothing strange is going on  this is exactly the behavior you would normally want   This warning in it s current form is one of two things    An unfortunate bug combined with an over-cautious warning message  or   A very clever plot to make you really think this through

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warning  LF will be replaced by CRLF     Depending on the editor you are using  a text file with LF wouldn t necessary be saved with CRLF  recent editors can preserve eol style  But that git config setting insists on changing those     Simply make sure that  as I recommend here    git config --global core autocrlf false   That way  you avoid any automatic transformation  and can still specify them through a  gitattributes file and core eol directives        windows git  LF will be replaced by CRLF    Is this warning tail backward    No  you are on Windows  and the git config help page does mention     Use this setting if you want to have CRLF line endings in your working directory even though the repository does not have normalized line endings    As described in  git replacing LF with CRLF   it should only occur on checkout  not commit   with core autocrlf true          repo                 crlf- gt lf    lf- gt crlf                          As mentioned in  XiaoPeng s answer  that warning is the same as      warning   If you check it out or clone to another folder with your current core autocrlf configuration   LF will be replaced by CRLF   The file will have its original line endings in your  current  working directory    As mentioned in git-for-windows git issue 1242      I still feel this message is confusing  the message could be extended to include a better explanation of the issue  for example   LF will be replaced by CRLF in file json after removing the file and checking it out again     Note  Git 2 19  Sept 2018   when using core autocrlf  the bogus  LF will be replaced by CRLF  warning is now suppressed     As quaylar rightly comments  if there is a conversion on commit  it is to LF only   That specific warning  LF will be replaced by CRLF  comes from convert c check safe crlf     if  checksafe    SAFE CRLF WARN    warning  LF will be replaced by CRLF in  s             The file will have its original line endings             in your working directory    path   else    i e  SAFE CRLF FAIL      die  LF would be replaced by CRLF in  s   path     It is called by convert c crlf to git    itself called by convert c convert to git    itself called by convert c renormalize buffer     And that last renormalize buffer   is only called by merge-recursive c blob unchanged     So I suspect this conversion happens on a git commit only if said commit is part of a merge process     Note  with Git 2 17  Q2 2018   a code cleanup adds some explanation   See commit 8462ff4  13 Jan 2018  by Torsten B  gershausen  tboegi    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 9bc89b1  13 Feb 2018        convert to git    safe crlf checksafe becomes int conv flags      When calling convert to git    the checksafe parameter defined what   should happen if the EOL conversion  CRLF -- gt  LF -- gt  CRLF  does not   roundtrip cleanly    In addition  it also defined if line endings should be renormalized  CRLF -- gt  LF  or kept as they are       checksafe was an safe crlf enum with these values    SAFE CRLF FALSE        do nothing in case of EOL roundtrip errors SAFE CRLF FAIL         die in case of EOL roundtrip errors SAFE CRLF WARN         print a warning in case of EOL roundtrip errors SAFE CRLF RENORMALIZE  change CRLF to LF SAFE CRLF KEEP CRLF    keep all line endings as they are     Note that a regression introduced in 8462ff4   convert to git    safe crlf checksafe becomes int conv flags   2018-01-13  Git 2 17 0  back in Git 2 17 cycle caused autocrlf rewrites to produce a warning message despite setting safecrlf false   See commit 6cb0912  04 Jun 2018  by Anthony Sottile  asottile    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 8063ff9  28 Jun 2018

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All of this assumes core autocrlf true  Original error      warning  LF will be replaced by CRLF   The file will have its original line endings in your working directory     What the error SHOULD read      warning  LF will be replaced by CRLF in your working directory   The file will have its original LF line endings in the git repository    Explanation here      The side-effect of this convenient conversion  and this is what the warning you re seeing is about  is that if a text file you authored originally had LF endings instead of CRLF  it will be stored with LF as usual  but when checked out later it will have CRLF endings  For normal text files this is usually just fine  The warning is a  for your information  in this case  but in case git incorrectly assesses a binary file to be a text file  it is an important warning because git would then be corrupting your binary file    Basically  a local file that was previously LF will now have CRLF locally

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