From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Raman Gupta <rocketraman@fastmail.fm>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cygwin: Initial clone of repo containing .gitattributes has modified files
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:50:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd49mfxcv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4A251F66.2020809@fastmail.fm
Raman Gupta <rocketraman@fastmail.fm> writes:
> When a repository containing a .gitattributes file, which contains
> other files with -crlf set is cloned on cygwin, with autocrlf = true,
> the initial checkout of the working copy sets the line endings for the
> -crlf files incorrectly (it ignores the .gitattributes, presumably
> because it hasn't been checked out yet).
I think this is what v1.6.3-rc0~83^2~1 (Read attributes from the index
that is being checked out, 2009-03-13) was about.
I see you are using a version based on 1.6.1.2; isn't there a newer Cygwin
packaged one available?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-02 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-02 12:47 Cygwin: Initial clone of repo containing .gitattributes has modified files Raman Gupta
2009-06-02 15:50 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-06-02 15:56 ` Raman Gupta
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