Am 02.11.2013 21:33, schrieb Sebastian Schuberth: > On 26.10.2013 21:17, Johannes Sixt wrote: > >> In a number of tests, output that was produced by a shell script is >> compared to expected output using test_cmp. Unfortunately, the MSYS >> bash-- >> when invoked via git, such as in hooks--converts LF to CRLF on output >> (as produced by echo and printf), which leads to many false positives. > > As you correctly point out the LF vs. CRLF issues are caused by MSYS > bash. Then why are the functions called mingw_* instead of msys_*? I'd > prefer to make very clear that not MinGW but MSYS is the culprit > concerning the LF vs. CRLF issues (and also the path mangling issues). It's a historical accident. We already have the prerequisite MINGW to work around various annoyances, most of which are caused by MSYS bash. I didn't want to invent a new prefix. -- Hannes -- 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