How do I force Git to use LF instead of CR+LF under Windows?

Question

I want to force Git to check out files under Windows using just `LF` not `CR+LF`. I checked the two configuration options, but was not able to find the right combination of settings. I want to convert all files to have `LF` line breaks and keep the `LF` in the files. Remark: I used `autocrlf = input` but this just repairs the files when you commit them. I want to force it to get them using `LF`. Probably I wasn't so clear: the repository is already using `LF` but the files checked out using Git for Windows are using `CR+LF` and I want to force Git to get them with `LF`: forcing Unix line endings. ``` $ git config --list | grep crlf core.autocrlf=input ```

Accepted Answer

The proper way to get LF endings in Windows is to first set `core.autocrlf` to `false`:

```
git config --global core.autocrlf false
```

You need to do this if you are using msysgit, because it sets it to `true` in its system settings.

Now git won’t do any line ending normalization. If you want files you check in to be normalized, do this: Set `text=auto` in your `.gitattributes` for all files:

```
* text=auto
```

And set `core.eol` to `lf`:

```
git config --global core.eol lf
```

Now you can also switch single repos to crlf (in the working directory!) by running

```
git config core.eol crlf
```

After you have done the configuration, you might want git to normalize all the files in the repo:

```
git add --update --renormalize
```

If you now want git to also normalize the files in your working directory, run these commands:

```
git ls-files -z | xargs -0 rm
git checkout .
```

How do I force Git to use LF instead of CR+LF under Windows?

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