Re: [PATCH master] convert: The native line-ending is \r\n on MinGW

> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> If you try this:
>>
>>  1. Install Git for Windows (from the msysgit project)
>>  2. Put
>>
>> 	[core]
>> 		autocrlf = false
>> 		eol = native
>>
>>     in your .gitconfig.
>>  3. Clone a project with
>>
>> 	*.txt text
>>
>>     in its .gitattributes.
>>
>> Then with current git, any text files checked out have LF line
>> endings, instead of the expected CRLF.
>>
>> Cc: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>> Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:
>>
>>> Introduce a new configuration variable, "core.eol", that allows the user
>>> to set which line endings to use for end-of-line-normalized files in the
>>> working directory.  It defaults to "native", which means CRLF on Windows
>>> and LF everywhere else.
>>
>> The following fixup has been sitting in my tree (but not tested on
>> Windows) for a couple of weeks.  Sensible?
>>
>> I don't know what the right choice for Cygwin is; probably LF unless
>> there is some way to detect the systemwide setting at run time.
>
> Has anybody in Windows land any input?  I don't think what I do before
> 1.7.3 in my tree would matter much, so I am not applying this myself.