End-of-line style incorrect

[mhier]

The end-of-line style is not matching git's expectations. When checking out the repository on Linux, git will detect a Windows end-of-line style (CR+LF) and convert it into the Linux style (just CR). This will tag all files as changed. When pulling updates from upstream, any upstream change will result in a conflict due to the again incorrect style of the upstream.

If you are using git on Windows, you need to configure git correctly to convert the end-of-line style automatically for you, since most editors on Windows use CR+LF by default. The current situation makes the repository basically unusable for any Linux user. It prevents me from doing any change, even very simple ones (like configuration changes), if I want to be able to pull updates from this repository.

Please fix this asap!

[mhier]

I think, one possible fix would be to remove the .gitattributes file, which makes git to convert the line endings. In that case, CR+LF will just stay as such and won't be converted. No harm should be coming from having CR+LF in the files even on Linux (at least Arduino is not complaining about it).