From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:37:33 GMT Subject: Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git Message-ID: 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