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Re: Forcing CRLF for files in a directory

From
Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Date
Jul 1, 2010, 13:55 UTC
Message-ID
<20100701135500.GA20015@pvv.org>
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<4C2C8644.4060208@ryanmccue.info>
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 10:12:52PM +1000, Ryan McCue wrote:
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> Hi there,
>
> I'm working on a project at the moment which stores raw HTTP header data  
> along with bodies for use during testing. As each header line must be  
> separated by a CRLF, these need to remain so in the repository.
>
> My question is: Do I need to do anything special to ensure these CRLFs  
> aren't converted to LFs during checkout?

If you are working on Windows and have set autocrlf (default on in msysgit), they will be converted to LF only in the repo if they are auto-detected as text files, and will get LF when checked out on a system with autocrlf false.

You can force autocrlf to not think of a file as a text file by setting "-crlf" for that file in .gitattributes.

In the upcoming 1.7.2 release, autocrlf has been fixed to never autodetect files with mixed line endings in the repository as text files, but it will take considerable time before that version is used everywhere I guess. Also, this won't really help you if you create the files on Windows.

- Finn Arne
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Message 3 of 3 in “Forcing CRLF for files in a directory”
  1. Ryan McCueJul 1, 2010
  2. Eyvind BernhardsenJul 1, 2010
  3. Finn Arne GangstadJul 1, 2010

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