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

Question

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

Answer 1

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