Line endings in git

Question

I am new to git, i was using svn earlier and we had issues caused by line-endings (CRLF and LF). now i am afraid this ll happen again in git too, the reason for my worry is different developers using different OS. and i am using a windows system with a Linux VM as my development environment. so project code is on linux and i edit it on windows. in the vm i have git which i use to push and pull etc. should i enable autocrlf to true? will it prevent issues for me? but i saw some ware i should set autocrlf = true in windows only. i hope someone can offer useful advice :-)

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Contrary to "Dealing with line endings", I would recommend to always set core.autocrlf to false (on Windows or any other platform):

git config --global core.autocrlf false

You don't want git to automatically changes files on a repository-wide basis without your explicit instruction.

Once you have identified specific files which requires eol management, list them in a .gitattributes file, with core.eol directives.