Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin-mmb7mzphnfy@public.gmane.org>
Date: Jan 10, 2008, 11:57 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801101155140.31053@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801101023380.11922-Hh8n7enkEC8qi7mQTfpNuw@public.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Peter Karlsson wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin:
> 
> > The problem is that MinGW behaves sanely, i.e. it does not output CRLF 
> > but only LF.
> 
> Well, that is broken, since the convention on Windows is to use CRLF.

I cannot help but wonder what exactly you wanted to achieve with this provably bogus statement, other than provoking flames. I hereby refuse to insult you for it.

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> > - Windows is already slow.  So slow that it is not even funny.  
> >   Granted, if you use Windows daily, git on MinGW seems snappy, but if 
> >   you come from Linux, it is slow as hell.
> 
> True. And I run git a lot on a Novell disk share, which doesn't exactly 
> help improve the speed either :-)

Don't do that, then.

I mean, git is _distributed_. Not like there is no way out because your "server" is on a disk share.

> Windows has CRLF line endings. Just deal with it.

No, I will not just deal with it.

Ciao, Dscho