From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:20:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH master] convert: The native line-ending is \r\n on MinGW Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v4nf7qzkd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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 ... > > This is absolutely the right thing to do. However, stuff have changed a bit since the patch was written; this change now needs to go in config.mak.uname instead of config.mak.