+5

Option to fix line endings that are preventing a commit.

Craig Patchett 8 years ago updated by Christopher Kline 7 years ago 5

There is nothing more frustrating than having someone on your team screw up line endings. While obviously not a long-term solution to the problem, it would be nice if SmartGit could recognize a line ending error message from Git and provide an option to automatically fix the files in question.

+1

What about a hook that rejects screwed up line endings?

Ideally I want something that fixes the problem, not alerts me to it!

Exactly. Sometimes line endings get screwed up for other reasons, after commit (misconfigured merge tool, using a different editor with different settings, etc).


I'd love a button that says "convert all line endings to <whatever is the dominant line ending in the file>". Would save me a lot of work.

Or, even better, the SmartGit merge / interactive staging tool could ignore mismatched line endings and just do what I tell it to do. My other merge tools (e.g. Araxis Merge) don't seem to have any problems at all dealing with mismatched line endings.

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In case this helps anyone, we finally tracked down what was causing the majority of our mix-up line endings. It was the git merge process, which does not respect git's autocrlf setting. We fixed this by adding the following to our .gitconfig


[merge]

## convert line endings during a merge (like autocrlf does during a pull/commit) to avoid line-ending-only conflicts

renormalize = true