(1.5.3.1 in cygwin, Win XP) I have cygwin configured to operate in the DOS/text mode, which means cygwin translates LF to CRLF when writing a file, and CRLF to LF when reading. Unfortunately cygwin's fstat() implementation doesn't take the mode into account when reporting stat.st_size, presumably for the sake of performance, while read() does actually do the conversion. That causes the function add_excludes_from_file_1() in dir.c to reject a .git/info/exclude file with CRLF ending, because the size actually read is not the same as the size reported by fstat(). The simplest fix I have found is to explicitly open the exclude file in binary mode, because the rest of the exclude file parsing code actually deals with CRLF quite fine. I would submit a patch but I am not sure if this is the appropriate fix. By the way, parsing .git/config with CRLF in the same environment works fine because the code reads the file by byte and doesn't do any size validation. Any thoughts? -- Jing Xue - 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
