git commit get fatal error “fatal: CRLF would be replaced by LF in”

Question

I\'m using Ubuntu 13.10 x64, and I am working on a project that some developers are using Windows , I recently changed the git config core.eol to \"lf\" and

Answer 1

This is a classic issue:

(picture from Luis Tubes's blog post)

The usual fix is to convert those files yourself, with dos2unix or Swiss File Knife.

I have always preferred to keep core.autocrlf to false, which means:

git config --global core.autocrlf false

Answer 2

I faced same trouble and fixed with editing .gitattributes as below.

$ vim .gitattributes

comment out 2 lines in .gitattributes

-* text=auto
-* text eol=lf
+# * text=auto
+# * text eol=lf

Answer 3

I'm on a Mac using Terminal and had this problem with an .htaccess file I was trying to commit, getting the fatal error:

fatal: CRLF would be replaced by LF in .htaccess

I wanted to fix the problem, like the OP requests, not just turn off a git flag, so I found this article that gives a perl command to fix the problem on a per file basis.

perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/g' input.file

So for my .htaccess error above, I ran the following:

perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/g' .htaccess 

The flags -p, -i and -e (pie) can be combined to allow you to edit files using Perl from the command line. In this case replacing all \r\n found with \n.