Stop git from changing line endings on Windows and add support for editorconfig in vim

windows/gitconfig.platform

@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
 [code]
-  editor = /usr/bin/vim
+    editor = /usr/bin/vim
 [core]
-  # Convert unix LF to Windows CRLF when checking out and vice-versa when adding files to the index.
-  autocrlf = true
+    # I used to have this set to true, which would result in checked out files
+    # being converted to CRLF line endings and commits converting to LF. I'm
+    # tired of this conversion shit though so I'm turning it off and will be
+    # enforcing LF line endings via a combination of editorconfig and
+    # gitattribute files on a per-project basis. This should make sure that
+    # anyone contributing to my projects will be committing LF line endings.
+    # The only exception is that the gitattributes files will commit batch
+    # files with CRLF to avoid Windows glitches.
+    #
+    # I used these posts for reference:
+    #   https://markentier.tech/posts/2021/10/autocrlf-true-considered-harmful/
+    #   https://troyready.com/blog/git-windows-dont-convert-line-endings.html
+    #
+    autocrlf = false