GIT: How to get rid of the annoying CRLF message on msysgit (windows)?

Question

Practically everytime I stage a textfile (that's most of em), I get the message from git gui (I use msysgit) that It replaced (or is about to) line endings with CRLF's. Obviously I want that (and there's a setting for it huraah), but I don't want the annoying message popped up all the time!

Any way to keep the setting, but turn off/disable the popup message?

I have no idea how this works with GIT on the commandline, but I like msysgit's staging process :) so I'd rather not change to bash.

Answer 1

One thing you could do, is setting the appropriate setting in the repo-config. The option core.autocrlf will do these things:

1. All text-files will be stored with LF line-endings.
2. When reading from disk, CRLF is converted to LF
3. When writing to disk, LF is converted to CRLF

You can set this option in git-shell

$ cd path/to/repo
$ git config core.autocrlf true

And then, delete any file but the .git folder itself from the repo and run

$ git reset --hard
$ git commit -am "Line endings fixed."

To fix he line endings.

PS: There is a small chance, that binary files are accidentially threated as text files and may be corrupted, then you have to read the manual or just ask here.