What's the best CRLF (carriage return, line feed) handling strategy with Git?

Question

I tried committing files with CRLF-ending lines, but it failed.

I spent a whole work day on my Windows computer trying different strategies and was almost drawn to s

Answer 1

Don't convert line endings. It's not the VCS's job to interpret data -- just store and version it. Every modern text editor can read both kinds of line endings anyway.