Re: Cygwin: Initial clone of repo containing .gitattributes has modified files

Raman Gupta [off-list ref] writes:

When a repository containing a .gitattributes file, which contains
other files with -crlf set is cloned on cygwin, with autocrlf = true,
the initial checkout of the working copy sets the line endings for the
-crlf files incorrectly (it ignores the .gitattributes, presumably
because it hasn't been checked out yet).

I think this is what v1.6.3-rc0~83^2~1 (Read attributes from the index
that is being checked out, 2009-03-13) was about.

I see you are using a version based on 1.6.1.2; isn't there a newer Cygwin
packaged one available?