Disable git EOL Conversions

Question

I am trying to get git to not change any line endings whatsoever for any operation. Unfortunately, it seems to do so not matter what. I have reduced it down to the followi

Answer 1

I figured it out. It seems that the SCP program was converting the line endings. I noticed this when I tried deliberately making a file with LF endings and then observing that it appeared as CRLF when downloaded.

Since this was the solution for me, I'm accepting this answer, but people of the future should also refer to the other answers for a more general solution.