Without a bit of information about what files are in your repository (pure source code, images, executables, …), it’s a bit hard to answer the question 🙂 Beside this, I’ll consider that you’re willing to default to LF as line endings in your working directory because you’re willing to make sure that text files have … Read more
Yes, PHP_EOL is ostensibly used to find the newline character in a cross-platform-compatible way, so it handles DOS/Unix issues. Note that PHP_EOL represents the endline character for the current system. For instance, it will not find a Windows endline when executed on a unix-like system.
Java 7 now has a System.lineSeparator() method.
Almost four years after asking this question, I have finally found an answer that completely satisfies me! See the details in github:help‘s guide to Dealing with line endings. Git allows you to set the line ending properties for a repo directly using the text attribute in the .gitattributes file. This file is committed into the … Read more