#GITHUB DESKTOP LINE ENDINGS MAC#

As mentioned earlier, Windows and Mac Operating Systems use different characters to mark the End-of-Line. Scenario 1 − Git is installed on a Windows machine and collaborators work on different platforms The 'tocrlf' property should be configured to manage End−of−Line conversion.

This option is recommended when the Operating System on which Git is installed and the Operating System of the collaborators’ machine are the same.Īfter Installation − Configure the autocrlf property This is a recommended setting when Git is being installed on a Unix−style machine and the project collaborators use Windows machines.Ĭheckout as−is, commit as−is − No conversions are performed are performed when checking out or committing the files.

However, Git will convert CRLF to LF when the file is being committed. This is a recommended setting when Git is being installed on Windows and the project collaborators use non-Windows machines.Ĭheckout as−is, commit Unix−style line endings − No conversion will be performed on checkout. It is important to handle End-of-Line characters properly for consistency across multiple Operating Systems.Įnd−of−Line characters can be configured in two ways −Īt the time of installation, Git allows us to select from the following options to configure the line ending conversions as shown above −Ĭheckout Windows-style, commit Unix−style line endings − CRLF will be converted to LF on checkout and commit operations. The and are known as the Carriage Return (CR) and Line Feed (LF) characters respectively. The End−of−Line is marked using two special characters ' ' in Windows Operating System while the “ ' character is used to mark End-of-Line in MacOS and Linux systems. This question can also be rephrased as − How do you resolve the Git warning − 'LF will be replaced by CRLF'?

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