git commit get fatal error “fatal: CRLF would be replaced by LF in”

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This is a classic issue:

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(picture from Luis Tubes‘s blog post)

The usual fix is to convert those files yourself, with dos2unix or Swiss File Knife.

I have always preferred to keep core.autocrlf to false, which means:

git config --global core.autocrlf false

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