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Asked: 2026-06-14T22:31:44+00:00

I decided to set my line endings the Right Way via a .gitattributes file

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I decided to set my line endings the Right Way via a .gitattributes file as detailed for instance here – so I set the core.autocrlf to false and created and committed a .gitattributes file :

*.java text eol=native
*.jsp text eol=native
*.css text eol=native
*.html text eol=native
*.js text eol=native
*.xml text eol=native
*.sql text eol=native
*.MF text eol=native

# git files
*.gitignore text eol=native
*.gitattributes text eol=native

#eclipse files
*.classpath text eol=native
*.project text eol=native
*.prefs text eol=native
*.properties text eol=native

I then issued git rm --cached -r . and then git reset --hard (tried also git checkout HEAD), as suggested here. Now all the files have LF line endings. Shouldn’t be CRLF ? What do I miss ? I am on windows 7, git version 1.8.0.msysgit.0.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It must be a bug. It is strange it is not fixed or reported really – this whole mess is about windows, and it does not work precisely on windows ? Moreover there is no mention of it anyplace (?)

    EDIT : Installed from the mingw “latest repository catalogues” – g++, gcc, ObjC + the MinGW Developer Toolkit and MSYS-1.0.11. Same behavior. Whenever I try to commit a CRLF file I get the CRLF will be replaced with LF (on checkout is implied) warning.

    EDIT 2 : seems about to be fixed

    EDIT 3: This has been fixed in Git 1.8.4.

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