Steffen Prohaska said the following on 13.08.2007 08:50:
On Aug 13, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:In msysgit.git/etc/.gitattributes we have 'termcap -crlf', to avoid the termcaps being checked out with Windows EOL, if the user happens to have 'autocrlf = true'. However, when you checkout the working dir the first time it still has Windows EOL due to exactly this problem.And exactly this is where I recognized the issue. msysgit devs, We should really make autocrlf = true the default for us and fix all problems that we'll encounter. There may be more tricky stuff ahead, like merges, cherry-picks, ...
I'm more leaning towards having the installer give you the option to choose what kind of line-endings you want Git to work with; just like the Cygwin installer.
-- .marius
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