I'm running MSYSgit on Windows, and have no mention of any kind of crlf conversion in the config files. Running git config --list shows nothing that would suggest any such setting. So, my autocrlf is "unspecified" which according to the docs defaults to false, which means "don't mess with it", right?
A co-worker got a autocrlf=true set when some git tool was updated, and made a mess before it was noticed.
Now, looking at one commit for example, I see a file in it that reports all lines have changed. Clearly it's checked in with LF's, and gitk will make it go away if I check the "ignore whitespace" box. The "external diff" (kdiff3) reports "text is the same but files are not binary identical". So far, so good.
But if I check out his commit, I see files with CRLF endings. Why is it doing that? I had to spy on the temp files used by the diff tool in order to see the LF line endings. So it seems able to cough up a proper exact copy, but normally changes it during a checkout operation.
I get mysterious things like after checking out, it immediately says I have a bunch of files changed. Or, it didn't show any; and after saving one file (no actual change) and rescanning, I had 5 files "changed". I'm guessing it is getting confused because sometimes it sees the internal representation and sometimes it sees the translated representation.
What's going on?
--John
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