Re: git-svn does not seems to work with crlf convertion enabled.

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 24, 2008, 14:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20080724142453.GV2925@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200807231852.10206.litvinov2004@gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 06:52:09PM +0700, Alexander Litvinov wrote:

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> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Alexander Litvinov wrote:
> > > In short: I can't clone svn repo into git when crlf convertion is
> > > activated.
> >
> > This is a known issue, but since nobody with that itch seems to care
> > enough to fix it, I doubt it will ever be fixed.
> 
> That is a bad news for me. Anyway I will spend some time at holidays during 
> digging this bug.

I don't want to discourage from digging into this problem, but there are two reasons why no one has fixed this issue yet. First, configuration CRLF conversion in Git and SVN is quite different, so it may not be easy to have the solution that will work in all cases. Second, in many cases, you can workaround this issue.

If I understood your situation correctly, you use SVN repo where text files are marked with svn:eol-style=native. In this case, SVN stores these files with LF endings internally, and git-svn receives files in that format (at least, it is so on Debian). Practically all Windows editors do not have problems to open and edit files with LF endings, but some of them will write back using CRLF. You do not want CRLF to get in your Git repository, so you can do that by setting core.autocrlf=input. This might work for you...

Dmitry