Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW's awk 3.1.7, config.status, and CRLF issues

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:57:33 +0100 (CET)
> From: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > How did CRLF get there anyway?  How did you extract or obtain the
> > source?
> 
> `git clone' using msysgit, which uses CRLF by default for checkout
> (provided the files are stored as LF within git, as it is for my
> repository).  I know how to circumvent the problem, but I was fooled
> by the `msys' part in msysgit's name, thinking that those MSYS and
> msysgit fit together without additional tweaks...

You should set up msysgit to leave the EOLs alone.  When you installed
msysgit, it offered that as an option.  In fact, I think this is the
default, but maybe I'm wrong.  In any case, letting a VCS change the
EOL format is asking for trouble.