On Windows the git client does the conversion between CRLF and LF for you when pulling and committing changes, so this is not an issue. This however can cause problems when editing files on WSL.

Incorrect line endings By default WebStorm/IntelliJ/P圜harm assume that the files you write should be using the line endings from the OS you’re in. “Filesystem Case-Sensitivity Mismatch” This can be easily fixed by going to “Help” -> “Edit Custom Properties”, and setting =true as described here: One thing to watch out with this setting is that you’re going to get that same warning when you open a project from your windows partition, so setting it to true might not be the optimal option. raises a warning “External file changes sync may be slow” From what I gathered it’s because WebStorm can’t start the fsnotifier64 on a network drive, which it thinks our Linux is on. This however causes a number of problems listed below

This problem has been described well by a lot of blog posts and bug reports, and everyone suggests to keep your project files on native Linux filesystem, for example /home//projects like I do. Here’s a list of the problems I myself encountered when using WebStorm with WSL2 (the problems are the same in any of their tools - WebStorm, P圜harm and IntelliJ): Example problems If you managed to get here then I’m assuming you also have problems using Jetbrains tools with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2).

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