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

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Raman Gupta [off-list ref] writes:

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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.

Thanks! I looked for the fix but didn't find any reference to it. Sorry.

I see you are using 

Actually, I use Linux -- its my coworkers that use cygwin! Bleh! :)

a version based on 1.6.1.2; isn't there a newer Cygwin
packaged one available?

Nope. That is the latest available as of this morning (at least in the
cygwin non-experimental branch).

Cheers,
Raman