OK, lets be brave and see if I can work this out: Tutorial says: "The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the git command's behavior. .git/config file for each repository is used to store the information for that repository, and $HOME/.gitconfig is used to store per user information to give fallback values for .git/config file. The file /etc/gitconfig can be used to store system-wide defaults." .git/config ====== [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = false bare = false logallrefupdates = true symlinks = false ignorecase = true $ echo $HOME gives: c\docs and settings\<my name> $HOME\.gitconfig ============= [gui] recentrepo = C:/Documents and Settings/conorr/Desktop/TEMP recentrepo = C:/Documents and Settings/conorr/Desktop/TEMP/swproj [user] email = cr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx name = Conor Rafferty /etc/gitconfig (under Git installation) =============================== [core] symlinks = false autocrlf = true [color] diff = auto [pack] packSizeLimit = 2g [help] format = html Then tuturial -> the two settings are core.autocrlf and core.safecrlf So I should set the autocrlf=false in the etc/config file I'm guessing? lets try that "Zorba" <cr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gjaqta$tg7$4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Dear All, > > I was just in the process of creating our first live version on git (5k+ > files), when I noticed this in the output of > > $ git add . > > being "Warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in <filename>" > about 500 times !! > > I'd rather not let git change any files, many of which are PHP that run on > Apache > I think I remember reading that this is a config option that gets swithced > on by default on windows (which we are running git on) > > how do I switch it off ? > > thanks > > -- 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
