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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 16:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702140835440.3604@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <200702141736.57521.litvinov2004@gmail.com>

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Alexander Litvinov wrote:

> 
> I just tried this patch and it works! From now I can use git-cvsimport under 
> Linux and then clone it to cygwin and work there with full history. Nice, 
> very nice.

Btw, it didn't do any commit message conversion etc, so you'll still always see commit messages with LF-only, and if you _create_ commits, you need to make sure that whatever program you use will do the right thing.

> In my case text file detection work well as far most of our files 
> are .cpp and .h

Yeah, considering that it worked in my testing for "git" itself, I'm not surprised. Source code tends to look the same..

		Linus

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