Re: [PATCH master] convert: The native line-ending is \r\n on MinGW
- From
- Brice Lambson <bricelam@live.com>
- Date
- Apr 15, 2013, 20:11 UTC
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- <loom.20130415T220316-790@post.gmane.org>
- In-Reply-To
- <1353857940941-7571889.post@n2.nabble.com>
Mr_and_Mrs_D <the.ubik <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> I am on windows 7 Pro - mingwin
>
> I decided to turn autocrlf to false and use .gitattributes instead and was
> bitten by this bug :
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13531988/git-line-endings-renormalize-
does-not-seem-to-checkout-the-right-line-endings
>
> It took me 2 days to figure this out
>
> Please fix
>
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+1, this is a significant issue downstream in Git for Windows:
https://github.com/msysgit/git/issues/57
Effectively this renders .gitattributes useless for the scenario of enforcing normalized line ending characters.