Hi, On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Valentin Villenave wrote Sunday, January 11, 2009 6:30 PM > > > By the way, one sensible addition to the CG might be to invite Windows > > users to do > > > > git config global.autocrlf = false > > > > or something like that (by default under Windows, git converts all > > line endings to crlf) > > I'm not sure this is advisable, or that the assertion is correct. > > Git requires only LF endings in the repository, but Windows uses CRLF > natively. > > If autocrlf = true, CRLF endings are converted to LF during commit and > LF endings are converted to CRLF during checkout. This seems eminently > sensible. This is the option I use, seemingly without problem. The problem starts when at least one file was committed _with_ CR/LF. Then Git fscks up. I have been meaning to work on this for a long time, alas, other things take priority. Ciao, Dscho > ps BTW, Macs use just CR natively, which really screw up git for Windows > users if present in the repository, although easy to fix once > understood. Does autocrlf affect this in any way? P.S.: as this applies only to MacOS < 10 (AKA X), we just don't care. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
