On 2017-10-03 17:00, Robert Dailey wrote: > I'm on Windows using Git for Windows v2.13.1. Following github's > recommended process for fixing line endings after adding a > `.gitattributes` file[1], I run the following: > > $ rm .git/index && git reset > > Once I run `git status`, I see that no files have changed. Note that I > know for a fact in my repository, files were committed using CRLF line > endings (the files in question are C# code files, and no > .gitattributes was present at the time). > > I also tried this: > > $ git rm -r --cached . && git reset --hard > > However, again `git status` shows no working copy modifications. The > one thing that *did* work (and I tried this on accident actually) is: > > $ git rm -r --cached . && git add . > > This properly showed all files in my index with line ending > modifications (I ran `git diff --cached -R` to be sure; the output > shows `^M` at the end of each line in the diff in this case). Note > that my global git config has `core.autocrlf` set to `false`, but I > also tried the top 2 commands above with it set to `true` but it made > no difference. > > So my question is: Why do the top 2 commands not work, but the third > one does? To me this all feels like magic / nondeterministic, so I'm > hoping someone here knows what is going on and can explain the logic > of it. Also if this is a git config issue, I'm not sure what it could > be. Note my `.gitattributes` just has this in it:
The short version is, that the instructions on Github are outdated. This is the official procedure (since 2016, Git v2.12 or so) But it should work even with older version of Git. $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes $ git read-tree --empty # Clean index, force re-scan of working directory $ git add . $ git status # Show files that will be normalized $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization" Could you open an issue on Github ? (Or can someone @github fix this ?) > > * text=auto > > Thanks in advance. > > > [1]: https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/ >
