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Re: Cygwin: Initial clone of repo containing .gitattributes has modified files

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 2, 2009, 15:50 UTC
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Raman Gupta <rocketraman@fastmail.fm> writes:
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> When a repository containing a .gitattributes file, which contains
> other files with -crlf set is cloned on cygwin, with autocrlf = true,
> the initial checkout of the working copy sets the line endings for the
> -crlf files incorrectly (it ignores the .gitattributes, presumably
> because it hasn't been checked out yet).

I think this is what v1.6.3-rc0~83^2~1 (Read attributes from the index that is being checked out, 2009-03-13) was about.

I see you are using a version based on 1.6.1.2; isn't there a newer Cygwin packaged one available?

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