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Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor

Reputation: 47392

Sharing a git repository between OS/X and Windows

I have a git repository stored in a Dropbox folder, that I use to sync between systems running OS/X and Windows.

Since OS/X uses the line feed (LR) character for newlines and Windows uses carriage return and line feed (CR+LF) whenever I move between machines I see a bunch of non-contentful changes, which just modify the newline character.

Is there a good way to deal with this? Can I tell git to ignore the newline modifications?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1402

Answers (1)

nabcos
nabcos

Reputation: 1094

GitHub has a helpful article about this:

https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings

In general, they suggest using git config --global core.autocrlf true on windows, and git config --global core.autocrlf input for OS X.

Upvotes: 9

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