Re: Gitattributes file is not respected when switching between branches

["Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>]

On 12.09.16 21:35, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
> On 12.09.16 14:55, Виталий Ищенко wrote:
>> Good day
>>
>> I faced following issue with gitattributes file (at least eol setting)
>> when was trying to force `lf` mode on windows.
>>
>> We have 2 branches: master & dev. With master set as HEAD in repository
>>
>> I've added `.gitattributes` with following content to `dev` branch
>>
>> ```
>> * text eol=lf
>> ```
>>
>> Now when you clone this repo on other machine and checkout dev branch,
>> eol setting is not respected.
>> As a workaround you can rm all files except .git folder and do hard reset.
>>
>> Issue is reproducible on windows & unix versions. Test repo can be
>> found on github
>> https://github.com/betalb/gitattributes-issue
>>
>> master branch - one file without gitattributes
>> feature-branch - .gitattributes added with eol=lf
>> unix-feature-branch - .gitattributes added with eol=crlf
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vitalii
> Some more information may be needed, to help to debug.
>
> Which version of Git are you using ?
> What does
>
> git ls-files --eol
>
> say ?
Obs, All information was in the email.

tb@xxx:/tmp/gitattributes-issue> git ls-files --eol
i/lf    w/lf    attr/                   testfile-crlf.txt
tb@xxx:/tmp/gitattributes-issue> ls -al
total 8
drwxr-xr-x   4 tb    wheel  136 Sep 12 21:38 .
drwxrwxrwt  19 root  wheel  646 Sep 12 21:38 ..
drwxr-xr-x  13 tb    wheel  442 Sep 12 21:38 .git
-rw-r--r--   1 tb    wheel   60 Sep 12 21:38 testfile-crlf.txt
tb@xxx:/tmp/gitattributes-issue>

Could it be that you didn't commit the file ".gitattributes" ?
This could help:
git add .gitattributes && git commit -m "Add .gitattributes"