Hi, On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Dmitry Potapov wrote: > On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 12:23:33AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > Just try to "git reset --hard" or "git stash" when there are files > > with DOS line endings and when core.autocrlf is not false. > > I did, and I have not noticed any problem with that. > > git init > git config core.autocrlf true > echo foo^ | tr ^ '\r' > foo > git add foo > git commit -m 'add foo' Unfortunately, this is not the common case. The common case is that somebody committed _without_ autocrlf (implicitly =false), and you clone from there. Easiest example: $ git clone -n git://repo.or.cz/git.git html-docs $ cd html-docs/ $ git config core.autocrlf true $ git checkout -t origin/html $ git status ... and despair. Hth, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html