在 Windows 上下载 GitHub repo 作为 zip，包括 CRLF

Question

Because I use core.autocrlf on Windows, my linefeeds that I commit and push to GitHub get normalised from CRLF -> LF which is good. When I clone on Windows they get converted back LF -> CRLF . However I want to download my repo as zip on a Windows machine without git installed. Now the linefeeds are incorrect for Windows.

Is there a way to download files from GitHub without git installed but still adding the CRLF back to the files?

Answer 1

When you download an archive from GitHub, it's essentially generated with git archive . That means what you get in the archive is what's in the repository, which means that Git doesn't perform CRLF translation. GitHub doesn't provide an option to adjust this because Git doesn't provide such an option.

What you're doing using LF in the repository and CRLF in the working tree (if you want that) is the right way to work with Git, and you should keep doing that.

If you want to do a release with a zip file that contains files with line endings different than what's in the repo or with additional files that aren't included in the repo, then create a release on GitHub and upload such an archive as a release asset. Then you can include whatever line endings you want or whatever else you want in the archive and have it available without the repository. Many common projects do exactly this.