Re: Bug? Git checkout fails with a wrong error message

Glad that you could fix your repository.

Yves Goergen [off-list ref] writes:

Just like that stupid autocrlf that causes more issues than it solves. I
regularly see files with all lines changed and the diff says that both
files only differ in line endings. But I have no sure observation on
whether that value was set or unset in those cases. I'll have to look
after that, too.

Just please remember what I tried to teach you in this thread: copy and
paste actual command invocations and outputs, and let us do the
interpretation.  With CRLF problems, it may in addition help to pipe
through a utility that shows the presence or absence of \r, such as 'cat
-v'.

These two config settings are not cloned with the repository, are they?

Neither config nor hooks are cloned.

Also, TortoiseGit already sets ignorecase = true. So maybe the Visual
Studio provider does the init on its own and is missing that. Or I have
at some time cloned the repository and the setting wasn't copied over.

git-clone also autodetects the setting as part of initializing the
clone.  (Copying over the repository from a case-sensitive medium using
a case-sensitive OS would of course leave it unset.)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch