How to change line-ending settings

Question

Is there a file or menu that will let me change the settings on how to deal with line endings?

I read there are 3 options:

1. Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style

   Git will convert LF to CRLF when checking out text files. When committing text files, CRLF will be converted to LF. For cross-platform projects, this is the recommended setting on Windows ("core.autocrlf" is set to "true")

2. Checkout as-is, commit Unix-style

   Git will not perform any conversion when checking out text files. When committing text files, CRLF will be converted to LF. For cross-platform projects this is the recommended setting on Unix ("core.autocrlf" is set to "input").

3. Checkout as-is, commit as-is

   Git will not perform any conversions when checking out or committing text files. Choosing this option is not recommended for cross-platform projects ("core.autocrlf" is set to "false")

Answer 1

The normal way to control this is with git config

For example

git config --global core.autocrlf true 

For details, scroll down in this link to Pro Git to the section named "core.autocrlf"

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If you want to know what file this is saved in, you can run the command:

git config --global --edit 

and the git global config file should open in a text editor, and you can see where that file was loaded from.

Answer 2

Line ending format used in OS:

• Windows: CR (Carriage Return \r) and LF (LineFeed \n) pair
• OSX, Linux: LF (LineFeed \n)

We can configure git to auto-correct line ending formats for each OS in two ways.

1. Git Global configuration
2. Using .gitattributes file

Global Configuration

In Linux/OSX

git config --global core.autocrlf input 

This will fix any CRLF to LF when you commit.

In Windows

git config --global core.autocrlf true 

This will make sure that, when you checkout in windows, all LF will be converted to CRLF.

.gitattributes File

It is a good idea to keep a .gitattributes file as we don't want to expect everyone in our team to set their own config. This file should be placed in the repository root and. If it exists, git will respect it.

* text=auto 

This will treat all files as text files and convert to OS's line ending on checkout and back to LF on commit automatically. If you want to specify the line ending explicitly, you can use:

* text eol=crlf * text eol=lf 

The first one is for checkout and the second one is for commit.

*.jpg binary 

This will treat all .jpg images as binary files, regardless of path. So no conversion needed.

Or you can add path qualifiers:

my_path/**/*.jpg binary