how to make git not change line endings for one particular file?

Question

due to a \"feature\" in Microsoft\'s Visual Studio, .sln files must have windows style line endings so that the windows explorer could open them in Visual studio. So I need to b

Answer 1

Take a look at the gitatttributes documentation. With recent versions of git, you can set the eol attribute for files to control what end-of-lines will be used when the file is checked out.

You should be able to create a .gitattributes file in your repository that looking something like:

path/to/my/file eol=crlf