Git - Fixing the crlf, linebreak, eol nightware

Problem:

Windows, Linux, and Mac have different ways to represent line breaks (end-of-line).  Windows use CRLF, linux and Mac use LF.

When developers are checking in code using different operating systems, a git diff will show lines with different line break representations to be different.

To compare without caring about the line breaks, use

git diff --ignore-space-at-eol

To clean and rebuild the directory:

Set text=auto in .gitattributes

echo "* text=auto" << .gitattributes

Remove the Git index:

rm .git/index

Rebuild the index

git reset

Commit the changes:

git add .
git commit

You should see the following:

The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in