git commit get fatal error “fatal: CRLF would be replaced by LF in”

Question

I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 x64, and I am working on a project that some developers are using Windows , I recently changed the git config core.eol to "lf" and core.autocrlf to "input" and core.safecrlf to "true". Since then, when I try to commit file into my local repository, I get this error:
fatal: CRLF would be replaced by LF in ......
From what I understand, if I set core.eol to "lf" and core.autocrlf to "input", git will automatically convert CRLF to LF, but why this error come out? How can I fix this problem?

Thank you.

Answer 1

This is a classic issue:

(picture from Luis Tubes 's blog post )

The usual fix is to convert those files yourself, with dos2unix or Swiss File Knife .

I have always preferred to keep core.autocrlf to false , which means:

git config --global core.autocrlf false

Answer 2

I had the same problem and tried the suggested solution with no success.

I had to execute a second command to make it work:

$ git config --global core.autocrlf false
$ git config --global core.safecrlf false

Answer 3

$ git config core.autocrlf false

Answer 4

可以试试 dos2unix：

dos2unix [filename]

Answer 5

This happened to me on thousands of files. So I wrote a quick bash script to make dos2unix fix it for me. Someone else on Linux or Mac might find it useful.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

unwindows() {

  local errmsg
  local fpath

  # base case
  errmsg="$(git add . 2>&1)"
  if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo 'Successfully converted CRLF to LF in all files.'
    echo 'Successfully ran "git add .".'
    echo 'Done.'
    return 0
  fi

  fpath="${errmsg#*fatal: CRLF would be replaced by LF in }"
  fpath="${fpath%.*}"

  if [[ "${fpath}" == "${errmsg}" ]]; then
    err 'Regex failed. Could not auto-generate filename from stderr.'
    return 1
  fi

  if [[ ! -e "${fpath}" ]]; then
    err "Regex failed. '${fpath}' does not exist."
    return 1
  fi

  if ! dos2unix "${fpath}"; then
    err "Failed to run \"dos2unix '${fpath}'\"."
    return 1
  fi

  # recursive case
  unwindows
}

err() {
  local -r msg="$1"
  echo "${msg}" >&2
}

unwindows

Basically, it tries to do git add . . If the command fails, it grabs the name of the incompatible file from the error output. Then it runs dos2unix on that file. It keeps repeating this process until git add . works.

If you run this, you should see dos2unix: converting file xxx to Unix format... repeatedly. If you don't, it's not working, so just press ctrl + c or command + c to stop it.

Answer 6

You need to add all files that git status displays as modified:

git add file1
git add file2

And then commit your changes :

git commit

This will keep your local files as is, but will autocrlf them on the remote repository.

Answer 7

I faced same trouble and fixed with editing .gitattributes as below.

$ vim .gitattributes

comment out 2 lines in .gitattributes

-* text=auto
-* text eol=lf
+# * text=auto
+# * text eol=lf

Answer 8

FYI not sure if this applies to you but I was getting this error when accidentally trying to add all node_modules to the staged changes. So actually .gitignoring the node_modules solved my problem.

Answer 9

I'm on a Mac using Terminal and had this problem with an .htaccess file I was trying to commit, getting the fatal error:

fatal: CRLF would be replaced by LF in .htaccess

I wanted to fix the problem, like the OP requests, not just turn off a git flag, so I found this article that gives a perl command to fix the problem on a per file basis.

perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/g' input.file

So for my .htaccess error above, I ran the following:

perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/g' .htaccess 

The flags -p, -i and -e (pie) can be combined to allow you to edit files using Perl from the command line. In this case replacing all \\r\\n found with \\n.