Gotcha with git (windows)

[code-mc]

I thoroughly read the readme and stumbled upon the section that warns for saving the file in a file editor or using version control which could change the line endings. This unfortunately happens on git (windows) with the default settings, and really got me scratching my head when it suddenly stopped working.

The issue however is that git only converts the file in its internal storage and leaves the unmodified file behind on disk, so it's only after you clone the repo that the file with the modified line endings is pulled.

Adding a warning for this in the readme might be helpful for other people. The solution for me was adding a .gitattributes file with following contents:

# never convert line endings of license files
*.key.lic -crlf