From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:04:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git status internals and line endings
Message-ID: <40aa078e0911130104v6acdecedxf629c5ef35a62740@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AFD1414.6030907@syntevo.com>

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Marc Strapetz
<marc.strapetz@syntevo.com> wrote:
>> Sounds like the core.autocrlf setting (see "git help config"), which I
>> believe is set by default on Windows.
>
> I have checked both $GIT_DIR/config and ~/.gitconfig and autocrlf has
> not been set. I have then set autocrlf = false for the Windows
> repository and still the file didn't show up as modified. On Linux, I've
> added autocrlf = true (resp. autocrlf = input) for the repository and
> still the file shows up as modified. Not that I don't like this
> behavior, but I don't understand it :) Windows Git version is 1.6.5.1,
> Linux version is 1.6.3.3.
>

In order to make changes to core.autocrlf effective, you need to
delete .git/index and perform a hard reset:
$ rm .git/index
$ git reset --hard

Did you do this before checking if the files were modified?

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund