s <em>git checkout</em> and <em>git merge</em> run.  They also affect how
Git stores the contents you prepare in the working tree in the
repository upon <em>git add</em> and <em>git commit</em>.</p>
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<p>This attribute enables and controls end-of-line normalization.  When a
text file is normalized, its line endings are converted to LF in the
repository.  To control what line ending style is used in the