Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git
From: Alexander Litvinov <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:54
В сообщении от Monday 12 February 2007 05:13 Mark Levedahl написал(a):
1) git is a POSIX only tool (i.e., there will be no \r\n munging), or 2) a Windows port of git will handle and mung \r\n and \n line endings. If the answer is 1, the mingw port is a waste of time as it simply won't be usable by its target audience. If the answer is 2, then I think a very careful design of this capability is in order.
I am strongly object this statement. I develop one project under Windows and use Cygwin git for this. Yes, I have a problem with git's thinking line ending is a \n but most of troubles are diff and rebase. In general git works well with \r\n line endings. When I have file that was converted from dos to unix format (or from unix to dos) git genereta big diff. But anyway, c++ compiler works well with both formats and in this case I simply convert file to dos format and git shows again nice diff. If unix format was commited to git I simply change the format and commit that file again. The only trouble is the rebase, it does not like \r\n ending and othen produce unexpected merge conflict. But I don't use rebse to othen to realy investigate and try to solve the problem.