On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:23 PM, manithree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We just switched to git this week from CVS, and everything's going > great for Linux users, but Windows users are having some strange > problems. > > Some random files just start showing up as modified, even though they > weren't edited. They look like a line ending translation because the > diff shows every line removed and re-added. I've had a couple of > people try re-cloning from scratch (making ABSOLUTELY sure that > core.autocrlf=true before the clone), and it still happens sometimes. > > Are we doing something wrong? I searched the archives here and > couldn't find anything similar. Hmm. Well, it appears the problem was that I had a handful of crlf files in CVS, and since I hadn't set core.autocrlf=input when I commit'ed them in git, they stayed that way. Git got so severely confused (but inconsistently), that I thought it had to be a git problem, but I guess it was mostly mine. Thanks, Barry
