Hi! We currently use msysGit in our company test farm to checkout the latest development branch and do autotests. However, we have one problem: Certain files require UNIX line endings, even though this is a Windows system. For this we use .gitattributes. However, if the .gitattributes file is also checked in to the branch, it will not always be honored. I browsed the code a bit, and it seems to happen whenever there is an existing .gitattributes file, but the checkout adds new files to it. These new files will not get the correct line endings (although I'm not sure if it happens *every* time, it could depend on the order they are checked out). I think this should be fairly straightforward to fix, by ensuring that if there is a file called .gitattributes in the index of the current directory, check it out first, before all the other files that may be affected by it. I can produce a patch and testcase for it, but I wanted to hear the opinions of some developers in case there is an obvious flaw in my solution. What do you think? -- Kristian Amlie -- 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
