Re: Dealing with mac linefeeds in git repository
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:07:40PM +0300, jussi.sirpoma@sks.fi wrote:
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> I am running cygwin git version 1.6.4.2.
>
> Some of the source code for our projects is encoded in mac linefeeds due
> to proprietary
> software platform. My current solution is to flag those files tu use no
> linefeed conversion and
> to use separate diff program by having this in .gitattributes:
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> annotations or diffs. Now I am wondering if I could make git work with a
> little different
> configuration:
>
> * The *.BA files with mac linefeeds would be stored with normal linux
> linefeeds
> * The files would be converted on checkout to mac linefeeds the same way
> as core.autcrlf works
>
> Is this doable or even a good approach?
AFAIK, its doable. One can specify filter programs to be executed when
checking out / adding files. That program could do CR <-> LF translation.
See filter attribute in man gitattributes.
-Ilari