diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 2d9c047926dc06f504dcd872c86d328d336637d4..455a4339420339371a2cc5c6166deed01c115bcc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ v 7.13.0 (unreleased)
   - Rename "Design" profile settings page to "Preferences".
   - Allow users to customize their default Dashboard page.
   - Update ssl_ciphers in Nginx example to remove DHE settings. This will deny forward secrecy for Android 2.3.7, Java 6 and OpenSSL 0.9.8
+  - Convert CRLF newlines to LF when committing using the web editor.
 
 v 7.12.0 (unreleased)
   - Fix Error 500 when one user attempts to access a personal, internal snippet (Stan Hu)
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index a4a4ba74e691dd21938b65098f5fb9832006b518..4f01d13a1278884f9f75aa290be371586caf7a67 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ gem "browser", '~> 0.8.0'
 
 # Extracting information from a git repository
 # Provide access to Gitlab::Git library
-gem "gitlab_git", '~> 7.2.3'
+gem "gitlab_git", '~> 7.2.5'
 
 # Ruby/Rack Git Smart-HTTP Server Handler
 # GitLab fork with a lot of changes (improved thread-safety, better memory usage etc)
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 0640c14d343fdb530d627bfc054ff79cbfa2992c..e64a32b6230899ef50cdceeb9f2a848eb87edbb0 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ GEM
       mime-types (~> 1.19)
     gitlab_emoji (0.1.0)
       gemojione (~> 2.0)
-    gitlab_git (7.2.3)
+    gitlab_git (7.2.5)
       activesupport (~> 4.0)
       charlock_holmes (~> 0.6)
       gitlab-linguist (~> 3.0)
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   gitlab-grack (~> 2.0.2)
   gitlab-linguist (~> 3.0.1)
   gitlab_emoji (~> 0.1)
-  gitlab_git (~> 7.2.3)
+  gitlab_git (~> 7.2.5)
   gitlab_meta (= 7.0)
   gitlab_omniauth-ldap (= 1.2.1)
   gollum-lib (~> 4.0.2)
diff --git a/app/models/repository.rb b/app/models/repository.rb
index 2c6347222aa0ce04246b398321b012cd05638543..b32e8847bb5183eccaa82125e97cd788ab028060 100644
--- a/app/models/repository.rb
+++ b/app/models/repository.rb
@@ -5,8 +5,13 @@ class Repository
 
   def initialize(path_with_namespace, default_branch = nil, project = nil)
     @path_with_namespace = path_with_namespace
-    @raw_repository = Gitlab::Git::Repository.new(path_to_repo) if path_with_namespace
     @project = project
+
+    if path_with_namespace
+      @raw_repository = Gitlab::Git::Repository.new(path_to_repo) 
+      @raw_repository.autocrlf = :input
+    end
+
   rescue Gitlab::Git::Repository::NoRepository
     nil
   end