This sandbox contains files with various line ending formats (LF, CRLF, mixed).
The original purpose of this is to explore the effect of using Git to normalize line endings in .gitattributes. Below are steps you can take to see this for yourself. It assumes you are on a Windows machine.
git clone https://github.com/teamtam/git-line-endings.git
cd git-line-endings
git checkout -b test
At this point, you can use your preferred text editor (e.g. Notepad++) to verify the line ending format is as expected in each file. Also, verify that line 4 of .gitattributes is set to * -text.
Change line 4 of .gitattributes to: * text=auto.
git add .gitattributes
git commit -m "Changed .gitattributes to normalise line endings"
Add some changes to Unix.txt, Windows.txt, Mixed.txt.
git add *.txt
git commit -m "Let's see what happens to line endings"
However, you won't see anything noticable changes until you force your working directory to update.
git rm --cached -r .
git reset --hard (to update working directory)
At this point, you should see all 3 files now consistently have Windows format line endings (CRLF). Voilà!