Configure git repository so that all files are stored with line-ending LF (not CRLF)?

Question

For a specific github repo ( only ) I need to make sure that all text files pushed have LF line-ending ( not CRLF ).

Further, pulled-down repo files should retain LF line-ending on clients either OSX or Windows.

Is this possible ?

Answer 1

Try to add a file named .gitattributes with the following contents:

*  eol=lf

to your repo. Then no matter what settings for core.autocrlf developers use, all the files will always use LF .

Just keep in mind, that it will change CRLF into LF upon commit in binary files also (like zip, jar, png, etc.).

Answer 2

You can't really control what your clients do - if they have core.autocrlf set to true then LF will get translated to CRLF automatically.

If everyone uses core.autocrlf = input then it should all work fine.