Re: Git patch won't apply

[Johannes Schindelin]

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.