More Recipes - Git Recipes - page 512

Hint The command $ git diff has a very useful parameter --check that can
be used to verify that the commit does not introduce changes that affect only white char-
acters. The command $ git diff --check reports problems with the handling of
white characters.
13-2. Committing files without line-end-
ing conversion
Problem
You want to start a new repository that contains text files with different types of line
endings. Some of them use Linux-like line endings that consist of a single LF charac-
ter, some of them use Windows-like line endings consisting of two characters CRLF .
Your repository even contains files using both types: LF and CRLF that are mixed in a
single file. You want to commit all the files without any conversion of line-ending
characters.
Hint At first, you may consider the files using both LF and CRLF to be corrupted.
But you may need them anyway. I found them very useful as the static fixtures to tests
when I was working on a library to process text files produced by external tools. It
turned out that the applications I used generated corrupted files containing not only LF
and CRLF but also CR as line endings. All three were mixed in a single file!
Solution
Initialize a new repository:
$ cd git-recipes
$ mkdir 13-02
$ cd 13-02
$ git init