How do you change core.autocrlf when using SmartGit?

Question

I don't have any experience with version control from the terminal but as far as I can tell SmartGit does not have a terminal nor does it use an external git client that I could configure via terminal so I don't really see how I can execute git configuration commands on it. Specifically, I want to do:

git config --global core.autocrlf true

Does it have an equivalent configuration option available from within the UI or is there some other way to apply this?

Seismic

Doesn't msysgit set this option by default? – Puente

Answer 1

SmartGit/Hg uses the command line Git which is configured in the Preferences. Both, command line Git and SmartGit/Hg will honor the global core.autocrlf configuration from your .gitconfig file.

Physiology

Answer 2

If you have problems with terminals, you could also edit the file $HOME/.gitconfig on Linux platforms or C:\Users\%USERNAME%\.gitconfig on Windows, and add the following lines to it:

[core]
    autocrlf = false

Also you can set the default EOL with:

[core]
    eol = lf

Stefansson

Answer 3

When we select an item Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style during git installation, this setting is saved in "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\gitconfig" as [core] autocrlf = true

Reinhart