Confused by GIT error message during commit

Question

I am new to git and I am confused by this error message that keeps popping up when I commit:
"warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in New Full Car.mdl. The file will have its original line endings in your working directory."

What does this mean? How can I prevent it from showing me the error on a regular basis?

Answer 1

This has to do with the core.autocrlf global config option. See this page on github and check out these stackoverflow answers, and more.

Answer 2

It sounds like git is replacing your linefeeds (LF) with carriage-return line feeds (CRLF), so it's swapping the end line characters on the repository side while leaving them alone in your current working directory. See this link for a description of newline characters.

If you want to avoid seeing that you could just change the newline characters in the New Full Car.mdl - it might do this when you pull from the repository, though if you've already pulled before it looks like it hasn't.