Re: [PATCH] t0020: make sure the test file is lf to start with

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 10, 2012, 12:50 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1206101349180.16012@bonsai2>
In-Reply-To: <4FD47E99.2000004@lyx.org>

Hi Vincent,

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:

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> Op 10-6-2012 12:47, Johannes Schindelin schreef:
> >
> > > Because the eol-style is now wrong from the beginning, the later
> > > tests '.gitattributes says two is binary' and 'checkout with
> > > existing .gitattributes' fail.
>
> > I wonder why it does not fail here:
> >
> >  https://qa.nest-initiative.org/job/msysgit-test/24/console
> >
> > IOW I think there is a difference between the msysGit setup and your
> > setup...
> 
> I compiled git using MSVC and try to run it in the Windows cmd prompt.
> Consequently it doesn't use the perl that is distributed with msysgit,
> but it uses the perl that I've installed on my Windows system
> (Strawberry Perl; http://strawberryperl.com/).

Ah, now it makes sense. Maybe a valuable information to convey in the commit message?

> When I modify the paths such that git uses the perl.exe distributed with
> msysgit the tests run ok.

Again, a valuable information for the commit message.

Also, I suspect that many, many more places should be affected by that Perl's behavior...

Ciao, Johannes

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