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Ad: fast-import problem importing dos format files under cygwin

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JHJan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Date
Dec 3, 2008, 09:10 UTC
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On 3 December 2008, 08:51, Jan Hudec wrote:
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> Hello folks,
>
> I have been playing with fast-import in cygwin and I have problems
> importing files with CR/LF line-endings. The size in data command is
> calculated including the CRs and than the file is copied binary to the
> fast-import input stream. However fast-import skips the CRs when reading,
> overreads by that number of bytes and fails when it tries to read the
> next command from the middle.
One addition:

I have tried with MSYS version 1.5.6.1.1071.g76fb and it imported the test, as it was, except it didn't like 'refs/heads/master' as branchname (and accepted bare 'master', but that created '.git/master').

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                                        - Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
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