Comments on: Disable AutCrlf in MsysGit!

By: reverse directory

reverse directory — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:16:00 +0000

Keep up the great work – it is a must have for all

By: Daniel Hölbling

Daniel Hölbling — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:20:00 +0000

In the meantime I started using autocrlf.true myself exclusively and we simply decided to not accept any commits that are not also autocrlf=true.
The problem is that you can get is wrong easily. Using a editor that doesn’t support it, or simply mixing the settings (one guy with autocrlf true and one with false will cause you headaches)..

My main issue there was that I was cleanly checking out a repository and on a totally clean repo I ended up with 30 unstaged changes due to autocrlf changing all line endings in newly checked out files..

greetings Daniel

By: Brett Randall

Brett Randall — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:50:00 +0000

There’s quite a bit of mixed advice around on MsysGit and the default/recommended value for core.autocrlf. I was happy to try and stick with the default core.autocrlf=true, but the main gotcha for me was I also attempted to use Eclipse EGit as a companion tool. EGit uses JGit, and I was bitten by Bug 301775 – Support core.autocrlf – JGit does not currently support the property. So, if you use EGit, you’ll end up committing all those Windows CRLFs, in a similar story to the above.

AFAIK using core.autocrlf=true would be OK provided you don’t attempt to use any Git tooling which doesn’t understand/respect the setting, such as EGit/JGit. But given the support in code editors on Windows for Unix LF endings, setting it to false also seems like a decent option.[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=301775

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