Re: Changing encoding of a file : What should happen to CRLF in file ?

[Ashish Negi <ashishnegi33@gmail.com>]

On windows :
> git --version
git version 2.14.2.windows.2

On linux :
> git --version
git version 2.7.4

I would like to understand the solution :
If i understood it correctly : it removes file_name.txt from index, so
git forgets about it.
we then add the file again after changing encoding. This time, git
takes it as utf-8 file and converts crlf to lf when storing it
internally.
Right ?

Thank you for the support.


On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 01:41:42PM +0530, Ashish Negi wrote:
>> > If you commit the file, it will be stored with LF in the index,
>> This is what i believe is not happening.
>>
>> Lets do this with a public repository and steps which are reproducible.
>> I have created a repo : https://github.com/ashishnegi/git_encoding
>>
>> If you clone this repo in linux and run `git status`, you will find
>> that file is modified.
>
> This is what what I get:
>
>  git ls-files --eol
> i/lf    w/lf    attr/text=auto          .gitattributes
> i/crlf  w/crlf  attr/text=auto          file_name.txt
>
> (And you get the same, I think)
> Newer versions of Git (>=2.10) will -not- treat file_name.txt as changed,
> older versions do.
> What does "git --version" say on your Linux machine ?
>
> However, if you want to fix it, you want to either end up with
>
> A)
> git ls-files --eol
> i/lf    w/lf    attr/text=auto          .gitattributes
> i/lf    w/crlf  attr/text=auto          file_name.txt
>
> or
> B)
> git ls-files --eol
> i/lf    w/lf    attr/text=auto          .gitattributes
> i/crlf  w/crlf  attr/-text              file_name.txt
>
> (The "attr/-text" means "don't change the line endings")
>
> Both A) or B) will work, typically A) is preferred.
>
> You should be able to achive A) :
>  git rm --cached file_name.txt  && git add file_name.txt
> rm 'file_name.txt'
> warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in file_name.txt.
> The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.
>
> git ls-files --eol
> i/lf    w/lf    attr/text=auto          .gitattributes
> i/lf    w/crlf  attr/text=auto          file_name.txt
>
> [snip the rest]