Re: Cygwin: Initial clone of repo containing .gitattributes has modified files

From: Raman Gupta <rocketraman@fastmail.fm>
Date: Jun 2, 2009, 15:56 UTC
Message-ID: <4A254BA6.3080601@fastmail.fm>
In-Reply-To: <7vd49mfxcv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Raman Gupta <rocketraman@fastmail.fm> writes:
> 
>> When a repository containing a .gitattributes file, which contains
>> other files with -crlf set is cloned on cygwin, with autocrlf = true,
>> the initial checkout of the working copy sets the line endings for the
>> -crlf files incorrectly (it ignores the .gitattributes, presumably
>> because it hasn't been checked out yet).
> 
> I think this is what v1.6.3-rc0~83^2~1 (Read attributes from the index
> that is being checked out, 2009-03-13) was about.

Thanks! I looked for the fix but didn't find any reference to it. Sorry.

> I see you are using

Actually, I use Linux -- its my coworkers that use cygwin! Bleh! :)

> a version based on 1.6.1.2; isn't there a newer Cygwin
> packaged one available?

Nope. That is the latest available as of this morning (at least in the cygwin non-experimental branch).

Cheers, Raman