Git can't check out on Linux with LF a file that was stored with CRLF

Question

I am checking out a third party project \"libjpeg\" from https://github.com/winlibs/libjpeg on Linux (it is just one example, actually I have the same problem with many other pr

Answer 1

You more than likely have set up some of the flags that tell git to mess up with EOL formats (and those flags are a mess). If you would rather have git not mess with them, you can do so by adding this to .gitattributes:

* -text

That way git won mess with the files when you add them or checkout. If you need some other kind of thing (like, real automatic EOL conversion), you might check the available things there.

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes

Either way, steer away from using the flags you used on the question. They are a mess.