Updating the Git index failed, LF will be replaced by CRLF?

Question

I\'m using git-gui for version control and pushing them to remote locations. When I tried to Rescan files for changes, I got this message and I\'m not sure what that means. Plea

Answer 1

I faced similar issues and decided to have a closer look to my configuration.

New Line Characters on Windows / Linux / MAC:

1. MAC OS before X: \r = CR (Carriage Return)
2. MAC OS X / UNIX: \n = LF (Line Feed)
3. Windows: \r\n = CR + LF

Don't panic. Git can handle the conversion between platforms for you.

Git should store the line ending as LF in the repo.

Set it to;

TRUE - If you are on Windows:

git config --global core.autocrlf true

This converts LF endings into CRLF when you check out code.

INPUT - If you are on a MAC/LINUX:

You don't need to convert anything, Git uses LF and your MAC uses LF.

But, you can tell git to convert any CRLF if one pass through:

git config --global core.autocrlf input

False - Not recommened

I don't recommend this, but just for the sake of this explanation:

If you are a windows dev only working on windows machine and you are 100% sure you will never work with people on MAC:

git config --global core.autocrlf false

UPDATE:

As commented below, I didn't mention the .gitattributes where one can default these settings for a project.

If you havetime, here is the doc: http://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes