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

Question

How do I make

git status

ignore line ending differences?

Background info:

I use randomly Windows and Linux to w

Answer 1

Use .gitattributes instead, with the following setting:

# Ignore all differences in line endings
*        -crlf

.gitattributes would be found in the same directory as your global .gitconfig. If .gitattributes doesn't exist, add it to that directory. After adding/changing .gitattributes you will have to do a hard reset of the repository in order to successfully apply the changes to existing files.