Re: core.autocrlf & Cygwin - files incorrectly flagged as modified

> Robin Rosenberg writes:
> > tisdag 15 december 2009 23:24:15 skrev  David Antliff:
> > > The problem is that sometimes, after a git-clone, the output of
> > > git-status and git-diff shows entire files as being different. However
> > > these files have not been modified by the user - only git has had a
> > > chance to change them (due to autocrlf=true). But surely if git has
> > > converted the file automatically, it should know that it has to
> > > compensate for this when comparing with the local repository?
> >
> > AFAIK, this happens if you have CRLF line endings in the blobs in the
> > repo.
> 
> Oh? That could very well be true - how would such line endings get into a
>  blob? I'm pretty sure everyone is using autocrlf=true which should convert
>  all line endings to LF on commit, but perhaps there's another way to get
>  CRLF line endings into a blob?
> 
> If autocrlf=false, files are committed as-is (I believe), so this would be
>  one way to end up committing such files. But as far as I know, nobody has
>  turned that option off in our group.