Is there a way to determine the line endings in a existing git repo?

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Is there a way to determine the line endings in a existing git repository?

If I clone a existing repository how do I determine what core.autocrlf was used by the cre

Answer 1

I would still maintain that setting (core.autocrlf) to false, as I explain in " Distributing git configuration with the code" that you mention, and uses eol gitattributes directive for a more fine-grained control.

That being said, to detect a mixed line endings:

• set core.autocrlf to true
• git clone your repo
• git diff: if diffs are visible just after your clone... some automatic eol conversions just took place in the working tree.

Update 2016 (4 years later): a more modern way to detect eol changes:

 git -c color.diff.whitespace="red reverse" diff -R -- afile