Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

From: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 01:18 UTC
Message-ID: <45D2637C.8030905@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <200702132258.20278.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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> Even if there is a native port, I'm inclined to want to use the cygwin version 
> anyway because of the nice shell and scripting capabilities and large selection of packages
> that match what I'm used to in Linux. Git under cygwin should do CRLF transformations 
> according to the same rules that apply to text files in cygwin.
> 
> -- robin

The cygwin project is explicitly trying to bury the "text" mount option and drive towards binary (= \n line endings) only. They once had a rule that all cygwin programs fully grok \r\n, but that ethic disappeared a couple of years ago, it was just too hard. The cygwin git port itself will not operate on a text mount, it requires a binary mount, so crlf translations are simply not available with git under cygwin.

Mark