Best practices for cross platform git config?

Posted by Bas Bossink on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Bas Bossink
Published on 2010-02-25T07:26:02Z Indexed on 2010/04/04 9:23 UTC
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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?

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