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

From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Date: Dec 3, 2008, 13:43 UTC
Message-ID: <51143.194.138.12.144.1228311791.squirrel@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
In-Reply-To: <49367909.8070605@viscovery.net>

Dne 3 Prosinec 2008, 13:18, Johannes Sixt napsal(a):

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> Jan Hudec schrieb:
>> On 3 December 2008, 08:51, Jan Hudec wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Do you happen to have core.autocrlf set in some way and could it make a
> difference for fast-import? I have it unset.

I have it set to false explicitly in global config. Tried with not having it set at all and gives the same problem. Since the previous version of MSys Git worked for me, I suspect it's somehow cygwin-related.

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                                        - Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>