This file instructs editors that know about it to follow the instructions specified within. For example, newlines might be restricted to simple line feeds lf instead of carriage returns + line feeds crlf, which generate visual noise in Git diffs, as Git is whitespace aware in its default configuration.
This file instructs editors that know about it to follow the instructions specified within. For example, newlines might be restricted to simple line feeds
lf
instead of carriage returns + line feedscrlf
, which generate visual noise in Git diffs, as Git is whitespace aware in its default configuration.