Best practices for cross platform git config?
- by Bas Bossink
Context
A number of my application user configuration files are kept in a git repository for easy sharing across multiple machines and multiple platforms. Amongst these configuration files is .gitconfig which contains the following settings for handling the carriage return linefeed characters
[core]
autocrlf = true
safecrlf = false
Problem
These settings also gets applied on a GNU/Linux platform which causes obscure errors.
Question
What are some best practices for handling these platform specific differences in configuration files?
Proposed solution
I realize this problem could be solved by having a branch for each platform and keeping the common stuff in master and merging with the platform branch when master moves forward. I'm wondering if there are any easier solutions to this problem?