Trying to fix line-endings with git filter-branch, but having no luck

Question

I have been bitten by the Windows/Linux line-ending issue with git. It seems, via GitHub, MSysGit, and other sources, that the best solution is to have your local repos set

Answer 1

The git documentation for gitattributes now documents another approach for "fixing" or normalizing all the line endings in your project. Here's the gist of it:

$ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes
$ git add --renormalize .
$ git status        # Show files that will be normalized
$ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"

If any files that should not be normalized show up in git status, unset their text attribute before running git add -u.

manual.pdf -text

Conversely, text files that git does not detect can have normalization enabled manually.

weirdchars.txt text

This leverages a new --renormalize flag added in git v2.16.0, released Jan 2018. For older versions of git, there are a few more steps:

$ echo "* text=auto" >>.gitattributes
$ rm .git/index     # Remove the index to force git to
$ git reset         # re-scan the working directory
$ git status        # Show files that will be normalized
$ git add -u
$ git add .gitattributes
$ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"