From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:15:47 GMT
Subject: Re: git status internals and line endings
Message-ID: <20091113001547.GB28836@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4AFC70CE.5020106@syntevo.com>

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:32:14PM +0100, Marc Strapetz wrote:

> On Linux, file1 and file3 are reported as modified -- as I would expect.
> The surprise is on Windows: here only file1 is reported as modified. Why
> not file3? Btw, 'git hash-object file3' reports the same SHA as for the
> LF-only content in the repository (not so on Linux, as expected).
> 
> Is this some special handling on Windows (and possibly on Mac OS)? In
> this case, can someone please point me to the corresponding code part?
> Thanks for any comments regarding this topic.

Sounds like the core.autocrlf setting (see "git help config"), which I
believe is set by default on Windows.

-Peff