From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:00:34 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH master] convert: The native line-ending is \r\n on MinGW Message-ID: <7v4nf7qzkd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <7vbp8aqtuz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > Jonathan Nieder 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 >> Cc: Johannes Sixt >> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder >> --- >> 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. Pinging MsysGit folk again ...