Reputation: 1341

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

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.

Upvotes: 98

Answers (9)

almo

Reputation: 6367

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

Here is the Git documentation for core.autocrlf:

core.autocrlf

Setting this variable to "true" is the same as setting the text attribute to "auto" on all files and core.eol to "crlf". Set to true if you want to have CRLF line endings in your working directory and the repository has LF line endings. This variable can be set to input, in which case no output conversion is performed.

Here is the Git documentation for core.safecrlf:

core.safecrlf

If true, makes Git check if converting CRLF is reversible when end-of-line conversion is active. Git will verify if a command modifies a file in the work tree either directly or indirectly. For example, committing a file followed by checking out the same file should yield the original file in the work tree. If this is not the case for the current setting of core.autocrlf, Git will reject the file. The variable can be set to "warn", in which case Git will only warn about an irreversible conversion but continue the operation.

[... rest of documentation cut for brevity ...]

Upvotes: 69

Yola

Reputation: 19043

One may just try dos2unix (man page):

dos2unix [filename]

This converts all the CRLF line breaks in a file to LF line breaks.

Upvotes: 16

thetwopct

Reputation: 1681

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.

Upvotes: 1

Nickofthyme

Reputation: 4327

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.

Upvotes: 2

GreenRaccoon23

Reputation: 3833

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.

Upvotes: 6

a10a

Reputation: 211

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

Upvotes: 1

Karl.S

Reputation: 2402

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.

Upvotes: 0

VonC

Reputation: 1324937

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

Upvotes: 238

Arun

Reputation: 2840

$ git config core.autocrlf false

Upvotes: 30

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