Git status ignore line endings / identical files / windows & linux environment / dropbox / mled

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Thorsten Niehues picture Thorsten Niehues · Dec 10, 2013 · Viewed 112.6k times · Source

How do I make

git status

ignore line ending differences?

Background info:

I use randomly Windows and Linux to work on the project. The project is in Dropbox.

I found a lot about how do make git diff ignore line endings. Since i use meld git diff opens meld for each file. And meld says "identical file".

So how do I avoid this. Git should only open meld for changed files. And git status should not report files as changed if only the file ending is different.

EDIT: Cause:

This happened because of this setting on Windows

core.autocrlf true

So I checked out the working copy on Linux and set core.autocrlf false on Windows.

It would be still nice to know how to make git status ignore different new lines.

Answer

Saša Šijak picture Saša Šijak · Dec 11, 2013

Try setting core.autocrlf value like this : 

git config --global core.autocrlf true

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