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Check the status of all files with $ git status -sb . As you can see this time
both mixed/abcd.txt and windows/abcd.txt are listed as modified. Finish
the recipe committing all changed files with:
$ git snapshot Standardization: line endings changed to
LF.
All three snapshots HEAD , the working directory, and the staging area now contain
LF line endings. The result of Recipe 13-5 is summarized in Table 13-5 .
Table 13-5 . The line endings in the three snapshots in the final state of the repository
13-05
Notice that this recipe converted the file mixed/abcd.txt .
How It Works
The procedure described in this recipe uses the following .gitattributes entry:
* text=auto
Thanks to the above rule, when checked-in, all text files will be converted to use
LF .
If you recreate the staging area with the two commands $ rm .git/index and
$ git reset then $ git status will inform you that the files are changed. The
next commit operation will save in the database, files with LF line endings.