Git line endings revisited and .gitignore

Git-scm.com revised their line ending fix-up instructions in a way that seems to remove ignored files from the repository.

Here are the new instructions:

echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes
git read-tree --empty   # Clean index, force re-scan of working directory
git add .
git status              # Show files that will be normalized
git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"