Re: Dealing with mac linefeeds in git repository

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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:07:40PM +0300, jussi.sirpoma@xxxxxx wrote:
> I am running cygwin git version 1.6.4.2.
> 
> Some of the source code for our projects is encoded in mac linefeeds due 
> to proprietary
> software platform. My current solution is to flag those files tu use no 
> linefeed conversion and
> to use separate diff program by having this in .gitattributes:

> annotations or diffs. Now I am wondering if I could make git work with a 
> little different 
> configuration:
> 
> * The *.BA files with mac linefeeds would be stored with normal linux 
> linefeeds
> * The files would be converted on checkout to mac linefeeds the same way 
> as core.autcrlf works
> 
> Is this doable or even a good approach?
 
AFAIK, its doable. One can specify filter programs to be executed when
checking out / adding files. That program could do CR <-> LF translation.

See filter attribute in man gitattributes.

-Ilari
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