Re: [PATCH] tests: added d2u to have unix style testfiles even in textmode

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 03:03 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708071959470.23971@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <11865269472121-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

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> This is needed if the content of files is compared with
> precomputed sha1s or stored expected results.
> 
> ***WARNING***
> This patch is useful for testing and illustrating the problem
> but not thought to be applied to any official git branch.

Quite frankly, *much* rather than having d2u everywhere, why not make the default for DOS/Windows be to have

	[core]
		autocrlf=true

and then none of this should hopefully be needed.

(We still need to write the internal git objects using O_BINARY to make sure that cygwin doesn't corrupt binary data, but that's a totally different issue).

			Linus

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