Hi, On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Jan Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Dne 3 Prosinec 2008, 13:18, Johannes Sixt napsal(a): > > > Jan Hudec schrieb: > > >> On 3 December 2008, 08:51, Jan Hudec wrote: > > >>> > > >>> I have been playing with fast-import in cygwin and I have problems > > >>> importing files with CR/LF line-endings. The size in data command > > >>> is calculated including the CRs and than the file is copied binary > > >>> to the fast-import input stream. However fast-import skips the CRs > > >>> when reading, overreads by that number of bytes and fails when it > > >>> tries to read the next command from the middle. > > > > > > Do you happen to have core.autocrlf set in some way and could it > > > make a difference for fast-import? I have it unset. > > > > I have it set to false explicitly in global config. Tried with not > > having it set at all and gives the same problem. Since the previous > > version of MSys Git worked for me, I suspect it's somehow > > cygwin-related. > > Huh. So fast-import *never* does auto-CRLF conversion, even if the > property is set. It just doesn't make those calls internally. It > blindly copies data from the input stream into the pack. No exceptions. > > fast-import under-reading near CRs and getting misaligned on its input > indicates that the stdio library has given us a FILE* for stdin which is > converting CRLF pairs into LFs, even within an fread() call. > > My guess here is fast-import's stdin is set in text mode, but it really > needs to be in binary mode. fast-import.c never attempts to correct > that when it starts, so on DOS based systems we are probably totally > screwed from the beginning... I think you need to set the environment variable CYGWIN=binmode Hth, Dscho -- 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