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Re: No auto CRLF conversion in Commit Message comments

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AHAndrew Harfoot <ajph@geodata.soton.ac.uk>
Date
Dec 17, 2015, 11:58 UTC
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<5672A352.60001@geodata.soton.ac.uk>
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Hi Johannes,
On 16/12/2015 16:45, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> However, if you have `core.editor = notepad`, it should Just Work because
> there is a `notepad` helper that performs the LF<->CR/LF translation
> transparently.
The problem in my case was that I had
`core.editor = notepad.exe`

This wasn't triggering the helper, I've changed it, dropping the '.exe' and it now works nicely.

Thanks for your help,
Andy
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