Line endings should be LF across repo and not CRLF

[LysandreJik]

Up to now we've had quite a few issues with users on Windows having their line endings be "CRLF" by default, while Linux users have "LF" line endings by default.

Problem

This can be problematic in the following scenarios where no handling of the issue has been done on the user's side:

• When a user runs make style, their line endings will switch from LF to CRLF in all files, essentially rewriting the entire file
• When a user adds a new file to the repository, it will be in the "CRLF" format and will be committed as such.

Resolution

The resolution is either to have the user handle that, or to handle that ourselves. Handling it ourselves is simple as it only requires adding a .gitattributes file at the root of the repository which will specify the line endings we're looking for, thus this is what this PR is proposing. On the other hand, we had issues handling it on the user side with the proposed git core.autocrlf as it seemed to have different results according to the setup.

Additionally, if users already have files in CRLF mode, then an additional command is required to convert these files to LF: git add --renormalize .. I believe this only impacts users that created files previous to this PR, as newly created files will already benefit from the .gitattributes file.

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This PR completely reformats two files: examples/research_projects/bertology/run_prune_gpt.py and tests/test_modeling_deberta.py. These files had CRLF line endings, and will now have LF line endings.

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Further readings:

• 🙏 Please Add .gitattributes To Your Git Repository
• Why should I use core.autocrlf=true in Git?
• git replacing LF with CRLF

cc @NielsRogge

[jplu]

LGTM! Super cool that we can now handle EOL that easily!

[NielsRogge]

Thank you @LysandreJik, this will alleviate much of the pain Windows users had with git in the past!

[julien-c]

To hack my way up the contributors list, can I change all line endings to CRLF then revert? 😂

[sgugger]

Thanks for diving into this!