Clarifying/clearing up line ending issues in GIT

Question

We have a repository that was exported from subversion into git. This repository is used by Mac, Linux, and PC users. Needless to say the line endings are a mess. Some files end

Answer 1

This related SO question will be of interest to you:

Trying to fix line-endings with git filter-branch, but having no luck

And here is a link to similar advice from Github.

Also, as mentioned in Greg Hewgill's post it is wise to verify that future committers use an editor which handles the new line-ending policy correctly.

When you say "Adding autocrlf = true seems to fix things slightly." I assume this was done in using .gitattributes.