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Git on Windows, CRLF issues

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Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date
Apr 21, 2008, 19:48 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0804212145570.21181@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>
Hi!

I have began moving old repositories for Windows-based software to Git. Since the tool I am moving from stores everything with CRLF line endings and have RCS-like keyword expansion, I'm treating it all as binary data when exporting to Git, i.e I have CRLF in the checked-in data (and I do want that, since this is Windows-only sources).

Now the latests msysgit comes along and (finally!) sets core.autocrlf to true by default.

How do I handle this without having everyone breaking check-ins? I can't require everyone to do unset core.autocrlf globally. Can I do that with gitattributes?

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