Git, adding files to repository gives fatal error for LF ->CRLF

Question

I'm new to git and I need some help. I'm using msysgit on windows.

When I execute the command git add [folderName] I get the response:

fatal: LF would be replaced by CRLF in [.css file or .js file] 

and then if you try to do a commit nothing happens.

$ git commit # On branch master # # Initial commit # # Untracked files: #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # #       so01/ nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) 

Some of these css/js files were downloaded from the net so I guess that's why the have LF. If I open the file and cut/paste the content, then I get the error on the next file and so on.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Edit

Setting core.autocrlf to false seems to solve the problem, but I read on many posts not to set this option to false.

Can somebody point me where can I find out what problems may arise in this situation?

Answer 1

very new to this so setting core.autocrlf to false didn't make too much sense to me. So for other newbies, go to the config file in you .git folder and add:

[core]     autocrlf = false 

under the [core] heading.