Re: Git on Windows, CRLF issues

Peter Karlsson schrieb:

I have began moving old repositories for Windows-based software to Git.
Since the tool I am moving from stores everything with CRLF line endings
and have RCS-like keyword expansion, I'm treating it all as binary data
when exporting to Git, i.e I have CRLF in the checked-in data (and I do
want that, since this is Windows-only sources).

Now the latests msysgit comes along and (finally!) sets core.autocrlf to
true by default.

How do I handle this without having everyone breaking check-ins? I can't
require everyone to do unset core.autocrlf globally. Can I do that with
gitattributes?

I see 2 other options:

1. Create a custom setup of msysgit that has core.autocrlf set to false.

2. You are still converting repositories? Convert the files in your
repository to LF. I did it like this, but it was a week -or more- worth of
labor to get the scripts in a shape that I could reproduce the conversion
(and it all happened before core.autocrlf even existed).

-- Hannes