Re: autocrlf

Andy Parkins wrote:

What I had imagined was that I could use .gitattributes to tell git which
files in my tree were text.  Then the line endings on checkout would be set
as appropriate to my platform, and on check in set to LF.

What actually happens is that any file with the crlf attribute is being
checked out with LF expanded to CRLF (I'm running Linux of course), which is
completely not what I wanted.

If I understand the documentation correctly
(Documentation/gitattributes.txt) then you set core.autocrlf to true on
Windows and false everywhere else, and things should start working like
you imagined.

I have not checked whether the behavior is according to the
documentation, though.

-- Hannes