How to change line-ending settings

Question

Is there a file or menu that will let me change the settings on how to deal with line endings   I read there are 3 options    Checkout Windows-style  commit Unix-style  Git will convert LF to CRLF when checking out text files  When committing text files  CRLF will be converted to LF  For cross-platform projects  this is the recommended setting on Windows   core autocrlf  is set to  true   Checkout as-is  commit Unix-style  Git will not perform any conversion when checking out text files  When committing text files  CRLF will be converted to LF  For cross-platform projects this is the recommended setting on Unix   core autocrlf  is set to  input    Checkout as-is  commit as-is  Git will not perform any conversions when checking out or committing text files  Choosing this option is not recommended for cross-platform projects   core autocrlf  is set to  false

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Line ending format used in OS  Windows  CR  Carriage Return  r  and LF  LineFeed  n  pair OSX Linux  LF  LineFeed  n   We can configure git to auto-correct line ending formats for each OS in two ways   Git Global configuration Use  gitattributes file  Global Configuration In Linux OSX git config --global core autocrlf input  This will fix any CRLF to LF when you commit  In Windows git config --global core autocrlf true  This will make sure when you checkout in windows  all LF will convert to CRLF  gitattributes File It is a good idea to keep a  gitattributes file as we don t want to expect everyone in our team set their config  This file should keep in repo s root path and if exist one  git will respect it    text auto  This will treat all files as text files and convert to OS s line ending on checkout and back to LF on commit automatically  If wanted to tell explicitly  then use   text eol crlf   text eol lf  First one is for checkout and second one is for commit    jpg binary  Treat all  jpg images as binary files  regardless of path  So no conversion needed  Or you can add path qualifiers  my path      jpg binary

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For a repository setting solution  that can be redistributed to all developers  check out the text attribute in the  gitattributes file  This way  developers dont have to manually set their own line endings on the repository  and because different repositories can have different line ending styles  global core autocrlf is not the best  at least in my opinion     For example unsetting this attribute on a given path    - text  will force git not to touch line endings when checking in and checking out  In my opinion  this is the best behavior  as most modern text editors can handle both type of line endings  Also  if you as a developer still want to do line ending conversion when checking in  you can still set the path to match certain files or set the eol attribute  in  gitattributes  on your repository   Also check out this related post  which describes  gitattributes file and text attribute in more detail  What  39 s the best CRLF  carriage return  line feed  handling strategy with Git

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The normal way to control this is with git config  For example  git config --global core autocrlf true   For details  scroll down in this link to Pro Git to the section named  core autocrlf     If you want to know what file this is saved in  you can run the command   git config --global --edit   and the git global config file should open in a text editor  and you can see where that file was loaded from

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If you want to convert back the file formats which have been changed to UNIX Format from PC format    1 You need to reinstall tortoise GIT and in the  Line Ending Conversion  Section make sure that you have selected  Check out as is - Check in as is option    2 and keep the remaining configurations as it is    3 once installation is done   4 write all the file extensions which are converted to UNIX format into a text file  extensions txt    ex   dsp      dsw    5  copy the file into your clone Run the following command in GITBASH  while read -r a  do find   -type f -name   a  -exec dos2unix       done lt extension txt

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For me what did the trick was running the command   git config auto crlf false   inside the folder of the project  I wanted it specifically for one project   That command changed the file in path  project name   git config  fyi  git is a hidden folder  by adding the lines   auto      crlf   false   at the end of the file  I suppose changing the file does the same trick as well

[git] How to change line-ending settings

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