From: Brice Lambson <bricelam@live.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:11:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH master] convert: The native line-ending is \r\n on MinGW
Message-ID: <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.