autocrlf

I have a git folder that is accessed both by a windows host and a linux guest from a VM (as a shared folder). Everything was fine until some git package upgrade started warning about "in the working copy of 'project.txt', LF will be replaced by CRLF the next time Git touches it" (or the equivalent from the Linux guest).

I'd like to avoid cloning the repository twice and I already have something that makes these file LF-only on the master repository. I set autocrlf = false in .git/config, but that does not seem to help.

The manpages of git are heavy, freaky and intimidating to say the least. But I guess if I had rtfm'd them, I'd have eventually encountered the git config --show-origin --get-all core.autocrlf command, which conveniently reports all the files where the given configuration item. I'd have figured out that while I had my local configuration file requiring "do not do auto-CRLF conversions", the system-global configuration actually had the precedence. ... ridiculus, but that's the way it is now.

git check-attr -a project.txt and git ls-file --eol project.txt could be useful to check the current state as well.

With autocrlf=false in Git/etc/gitconfig, I don't have the warnings anymore, but I still have the file that is switching between CRLF and LF depending on whether Windows host or Linux guest is checking it out. It looks like the only way to get the desired behaviour is to edit * text=auto eof=lf in .gitattributes, at the root of the repository. I want that to remain a local decision, and hopefully, my colleagues haven't committed that file yet, so that'll work.