title: Git status ignore line endings / identical files / windows & linux environment / dropbox / meld
body: <p>How do I make </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>git status</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>ignore line ending differences?</p>
  
  <p>Background info:</p>
  
  <p>I use randomly Windows and Linux to work on the project. The project is in Dropbox.</p>
  
  <p>I found a lot about how do make git diff ignore line endings. Since i use meld git diff opens meld for each file. And meld says "identical file". </p>
  
  <p>So how do I avoid this. Git should only open meld for changed files.
  And git status should not report files as changed if only the file ending is different.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT: Cause:</strong></p>
  
  <p>This happened because of this setting on Windows </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>core.autocrlf true</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>So I checked out the working copy on Linux and set core.autocrlf false on Windows.</p>
  
  <p>It would be still nice to know how to make git status ignore different new lines.</p>