On 2020-06-09 at 19:52:42, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Hi git list, > > long time no see! I am here to ask for a sanity check. I'm on OSX. > Checking out a repository that has an un-controlled mix of line > endings. Mostly linux-style, but some Windows CRLF endings. > > A few tests. > - I set core.autocrlf=input globally --> a fresh clone doesn't have a > clean status files look modified right after a clone) > - set core.autocrlf=false globally --> a fresh clone doesn't have a > clean status > - set core.autocrlf=true globally --> a fresh clone doesn't have a clean status > > This is git v2.23.0 from Homebrew. > > Am I doing something wrong? Can git work sanely on a mixed endings > repo without having to fix the world first? > > ... I do strive to fix the world (and this small repository), as we > all do, but it should not be a preconditions before git behaves > sanely. Does this repository have a .gitattributes file and if so, is there any correlation between the patterns in that file and the modified files? -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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