warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in cli.rb about git HOT 6 CLOSED

Cygwin tries very hard to make a Unix-like environment on Windows (and pays for it in performance), hence the default end-of-line character is a line feed there.

Git for Windows tries very hard to integrate with standard Windows, which uses DOS-style line endings, i.e. carriage return followed by a line feed.

You can easily change the setting if you want to deviate from the platform's default: Just have a look at the core.autocrlf variable in .git/config: changing it to false will tell Git to keep the line-endings identical between the working directory and the repository. Note: if you change the setting, you will most likely have to deal with your fellow developers yelling at you for committing DOS-line endings into the repository, because it will happen.

For details, search for core.autocrlf in http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html.

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@dscho yeah, I understand with my .gitattributes file, checking out files with cygwin git and msysgit might cause the files have different eols, but when commiting/normalizing, both platform should have the eols normalized to LF, right? but from warning it looks like msysgit tries to normalize the eols to CRLF, that's what I wish to be fixed. Thanks

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@ryenus the warning is about the file, i.e. the working directory.

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No. LF is simply wrong on Windows.

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@kusma but according the manual, setting text to auto does mean to normalize all the eols to LF

Set to string value "auto"
When text is set to "auto", the path is marked for automatic end-of-line normalization. If git decides that the content is text, its line endings are normalized to LF on checkin.

and I do believe the point of this is to ensure true cross-platform support.

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I was talking about the working directory, which is what the warning is about. Perhaps we could make the warning less confusing?

core.autocrlf normalize to LF in the repo, but it will also change the working-copy version to CRLF if it already contains LF-newlines.

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