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Re: git status internals and line endings

From
Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com>
Date
Nov 13, 2009, 08:08 UTC
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<4AFD1414.6030907@syntevo.com>
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<20091113001547.GB28836@sigill.intra.peff.net>
> 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.

-- Best regards, Marc Strapetz ============= syntevo GmbH http://www.syntevo.com http://blog.syntevo.com

Jeff King wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:32:14PM +0100, Marc Strapetz wrote:
> 
>> On Linux, file1 and file3 are reported as modified -- as I would expect.
>> The surprise is on Windows: here only file1 is reported as modified. Why
>> not file3? Btw, 'git hash-object file3' reports the same SHA as for the
>> LF-only content in the repository (not so on Linux, as expected).
>>
>> Is this some special handling on Windows (and possibly on Mac OS)? In
>> this case, can someone please point me to the corresponding code part?
>> Thanks for any comments regarding this topic.
> 
> Sounds like the core.autocrlf setting (see "git help config"), which I
> believe is set by default on Windows.
> 
> -Peff
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