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Convert line-endings for whole directory tree (Git)

Following situation:

I'm working on a Mac running OS X and recently joined a project whose members so far all use Windows. One of my first tasks was to set up the codebase in a Git repository, so I pulled the directory tree from FTP and tried to check it into the Git repo I had prepared locally. When trying to do this, all I got was this

fatal: CRLF would be replaced by LF in blog/license.txt.

Since this affects all files below the "blog" folder, I'm looking for a way to conveniently convert ALL files in the tree to Unix line-endings. Is there a tool that does that out of the box or do I get scripting something myself?

For reference, my Git config concerning line-endings:

core.safecrlf=true
core.autocrlf=input
Solution

  • dos2unix does that for you. Fairly straight forward process.

    dos2unix filename

    Thanks to toolbear, here is a one-liner that recursively replaces line endings and properly handles whitespace, quotes, and shell meta chars.

    find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} \;

    If you're using dos2unix 6.0 binary files will be ignored.