Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

Robin Rosenberg wrote:

Even if there is a native port, I'm inclined to want to use the cygwin version 
anyway because of the nice shell and scripting capabilities and large selection of packages
that match what I'm used to in Linux. Git under cygwin should do CRLF transformations 
according to the same rules that apply to text files in cygwin.

-- robin

The cygwin project is explicitly trying to bury the "text" mount option 
and drive towards binary (= \n line endings) only. They once had a rule 
that all cygwin programs fully grok \r\n, but that ethic disappeared a 
couple of years ago, it was just too hard. The cygwin git port itself 
will not operate on a text mount, it requires a binary mount, so crlf 
translations are simply not available with git under cygwin.

Mark