GIT Warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF

I am using msysgit on windows 2000

After setting up the repository and when I tried to add files to GIT index (inorder to have my files considered for next commit) ........ I got

Warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in FILENAME

After googling I found this a default GIT setting and can be overridden by issuing

git config core.autocrlf false

in Bash mode


A note on LF & CRLF

Most Unix operating systems represent the end of each line with a line feed (LF) character. However, the Windows operating system represent the end of line with both a carriage return (CR) and a LF.

Git on windows - Basics

GIT has now become the preferred source code management tool for Rails community. GIT is at its best when used in Linux / Mac platforms, here we will see how this can be used in Windows. GIT still has few issues in windows but the basic functionalities should work fine.

GIT for windows can be downloaded from Google

There some good links detailing the installation steps

> Using SSH

> Using PuTTY

Follow the above links to finish installation.

Once done with this we are ready to start using GIT as SCM tool.

Getting started - To start GIT bash Right click on your project directory and select 'Git Bash Here' ( if you are a fan of typing commands or else use GUI option)

This will open a CMD window, start by typing 'git help'

Create Git repository - to create a git repo. for your project type - git init

I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so just providing a list of useful links which has very good articles on GIT usage.

Useful links

> Github
> User guide
> GIT commands
> Access issue