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 "| xargs fromdos" reads from standard input (the files find finds) and uses it as arguments for the command fromdos, which converts the line endings. (Is fromdos standard in those enviroments? I'm used to dos2unix). Note that you can avoid using xargs (especially useful if you have enough files that the argument list is too long for xargs):

find  -exec fromdos '{}' \;

or

find  | while read file; do fromdos $file; done

I'm not totally sure about your error messages. I successfully tested this method. What program is producing each? What files/directories do you not have permissions for? However, here's a stab at guessing what your it might be:

One easy way to get a 'file not found' error for the script is by using a relative path - use an absolute one. Similarly you could get a permissions error if you haven't made your script executable (chmod +x).

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