Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 13, 2007, 12:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702131328440.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200702131816.27705.litvinov2004@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Alexander Litvinov wrote:

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> Tuesday 13 February 2007 16:06 Johannes Schindelin:
> > At some stage, Alexander wrote this:
> 
> > > The only trouble is the rebase, it does not like \r\n ending and othen
> > > produce unexpected merge conflict. But I don't use rebse to othen to
> > > realy investigate and try to solve the problem.
> >
> > Well, if everybody thinks like you, maybe we do not have to change
> > anything for Windows after all?
>
> I still wish to have working rebase so if git will hanle somehow \r\n it 
> would be nice. But please do not produce the same behavior as cvs does: 
> under cygwin it still use \n !

You really should teach format-patch to output \n patches, and keep all your blobs CR free.

> By the way, most windows programmers I work with says 'git is cool but 
> is there gui like tortoise or wincvs ?' :-)

Some time ago, I started playing with a shell extension. Now that MinGW git is almost there, I might clean it up... Would you be interested in working on it, or is this just wishtalk?

Ciao, Dscho