> now that Windows mostly stopped resisting the inevitable

I've been trying to get Visual Studio to stop mucking with line endings and encodings for years. I've searched and set all the relevant settings I could find, including using a .editorconfig file, but it refuses to be consistent. Someone please tell me I'm wrong and there's a way to force LF and UTF-8 no-BOM for all files all the time. I can't believe how much time I waste on this, mainly so diffs are clean.

Ugh, I didn't realize it was still that bad.

How far can you get with setting core.autocrlf on your machine? See https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configura...