.gitattributes not respected on most windows OS

Question

So I've tried to introduce a .gitattributes file to my projects repos but I've run into an issue where the file is not respected among some of my peers Windows 10 machines. I've tried looking at Git pull on Windows (git smc client) doesn't respect .gitattributes's eol=lf and many other posts to no avail as it doesn't fit the experience I am seeing. I would expect given this .gitattributes file that all text would stay as LF but it is not. The windows OS is actively converting the files at git add (which have all undergone git add --renormalize .) to CRLF. The exact warning is: warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in Callflows/ors_PostCreateOrsIssue.callflow. The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.

To confound it more, a couple of my peers' windows OS performs as expected where the LF and the .gitattributes is respected.

Gitattributes:

# Setting a default value and trusting git to do correctly determine files
*               text eol=LF

# Java sources
*.java          text diff=java
*.gradle        text diff=java
*.gradle.kts    text diff=java

# These files are text and should be normalized (Convert crlf => lf)
*.css           text diff=css
*.df            text
*.htm           text diff=html
*.html          text diff=html
*.js            text
*.jsp           text
*.jspf          text
*.jspx          text
*.properties    text
*.tld           text
*.tag           text
*.tagx          text
*.xml           text
*.grxml         text
*.callflow      text
*.json          text

# These files are binary and should be left untouched
# (binary is a macro for -text -diff)
*.class         binary
*.dll           binary
*.ear           binary
*.jar           binary
*.so            binary
*.war           binary
*.jks           binary
*.wav           binary
*.vox           binary
*.gram          binary

Here is a working setup from my peers machine.

• git --version: 2.18.0.windows.1
• global git config retrieved using git config -l.

core.symlinks=false
core.autocrlf=true
core.fscache=true
color.diff=auto
color.status=auto
color.branch=auto
color.interactive=true
help.format=html
rebase.autosquash=true
http.sslcainfo=C:/Program Files/Git/asdf/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
http.sslbackend=openssl
diff.astextplain.textconv=astextplain
filter.lfs.clean=git-lfs clean -- %f
filter.lfs.smudge=git-lfs smudge -- %f
filter.lfs.process=git-lfs filter-process
filter.lfs.required=true
user.name=asdf
[email protected]
difftool.sourcetree.cmd='' "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
mergetool.sourcetree.cmd=''
mergetool.sourcetree.trustexitcode=true

Setup from a peer where it is NOT working:

• git --version: 2.18.0.windows.1
• git config -l:

core.symlinks=false
core.autocrlf=true
core.fscache=true
color.diff=auto
color.status=auto
color.branch=auto
color.interactive=true
help.format=html
rebase.autosquash=true
http.sslcainfo=C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
http.sslbackend=openssl
diff.astextplain.textconv=astextplain
filter.lfs.clean=git-lfs clean -- %f
filter.lfs.smudge=git-lfs smudge -- %f
filter.lfs.process=git-lfs filter-process
filter.lfs.required=true
credential.helper=manager
filter.lfs.smudge=git-lfs smudge -- %f
filter.lfs.process=git-lfs filter-process
filter.lfs.required=true
filter.lfs.clean=git-lfs clean -- %f

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Answer 1

You've misconfigured your .gitattributes file. The attribute is eol=lf, not eol=LF. This option is case sensitive, like most Git options, and by specifying LF this attribute is left unset. Since it's unset and your version of Git is configured with core.autocrlf=true, your files are checked out as CRLF.

If you fix that, things should work correctly.