diff --git a/internal/repo/compact_test.go b/internal/repo/compact_test.go
index 69124e1..2374434 100644
--- a/internal/repo/compact_test.go
+++ b/internal/repo/compact_test.go
@@ -777,3 +777,38 @@ func TestAPureDeletionIsNeverTruncated(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the tail was dropped: %q", got)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestCompactKeepsAFilesCRLFLineEndings(t *testing.T) {
+	// A Windows checkout with core.autocrlf (Git for Windows' default)
+	// has CRLF on every line. The patch is written with plain newlines,
+	// and matching already tolerates that; what it wrote back did not,
+	// leaving every line the hunk touched with LF in an otherwise CRLF
+	// file.
+	repository := project(t, map[string]string{
+		"app.py": "import os\r\n\r\ndef start():\r\n    server.run(config)\r\n    return server\r\n",
+	})
+	err := repository.Apply("@app.py\n def start():\n-    server.run(config)\n+    server.run(config, debug=True)\n     return server\n")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	want := "import os\r\n\r\ndef start():\r\n    server.run(config, debug=True)\r\n    return server\r\n"
+	if got := read(t, repository, "app.py"); got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("line endings not kept:\n got %q\nwant %q", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestApplyPatchFormatKeepsAFilesCRLFLineEndings(t *testing.T) {
+	// The same kind of file edited through the apply_patch format, whose
+	// lines may carry the CR themselves when the model copied them from
+	// the file byte for byte.
+	repository := project(t, map[string]string{
+		"a.txt": "one\r\ntwo\r\nthree\r\n",
+	})
+	err := repository.Apply("*** Begin Patch\n*** Update File: a.txt\n@@\n one\r\n-two\r\n+TWO\r\n three\n*** End Patch\n")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got, want := read(t, repository, "a.txt"), "one\r\nTWO\r\nthree\r\n"; got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("line endings not kept:\n got %q\nwant %q", got, want)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/repo/patch.go b/internal/repo/patch.go
index 32e324b..7c82ba9 100644
--- a/internal/repo/patch.go
+++ b/internal/repo/patch.go
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ func (repository *Repository) applyByContent(patch string) error {
 			current = read
 			originals[file.path] = read
 		}
-		content, hunkFailures := applyHunks(current, file.hunks)
+		content, hunkFailures := applyKeepingLineEndings(current, file.hunks)
 		for _, failure := range hunkFailures {
 			// The file is known here and not where the failure was
 			// raised, so it is filled in on the way past.
@@ -483,6 +483,36 @@ func changesNothing(current hunk) bool {
 	return true
 }
 
+// applyKeepingLineEndings is applyHunks for a file that may use CRLF.
+// Hunks are written with plain newlines, so in a CRLF file every line
+// only matched through locate's whitespace-insensitive pass, and the
+// lines put back in its place came from the hunk without their CR: each
+// edit left the lines it touched with LF inside an otherwise CRLF file.
+// A file whose every line ends in CRLF is edited as LF and converted
+// back; anything else (LF, mixed, a new file) is applied as it stands.
+func applyKeepingLineEndings(content string, hunks []hunk) (string, []*HunkError) {
+	breaks := strings.Count(content, "\n")
+	if breaks == 0 || strings.Count(content, "\r\n") != breaks {
+		return applyHunks(content, hunks)
+	}
+	withoutCR := func(lines []string) []string {
+		trimmed := make([]string, len(lines))
+		for index, line := range lines {
+			trimmed[index] = strings.TrimSuffix(line, "\r")
+		}
+		return trimmed
+	}
+	trimmed := make([]hunk, len(hunks))
+	for index, current := range hunks {
+		trimmed[index] = hunk{before: withoutCR(current.before), after: withoutCR(current.after)}
+		for _, op := range current.ops {
+			trimmed[index].ops = append(trimmed[index].ops, patchOp{kind: op.kind, text: strings.TrimSuffix(op.text, "\r")})
+		}
+	}
+	placed, failures := applyHunks(strings.ReplaceAll(content, "\r\n", "\n"), trimmed)
+	return strings.ReplaceAll(placed, "\n", "\r\n"), failures
+}
+
 func applyHunks(content string, hunks []hunk) (string, []*HunkError) {
 	lines := strings.Split(content, "\n")
 	var failures []*HunkError