Re: [PATCH master] convert: The native line-ending is \r\n on MinGW

Mr_and_Mrs_D <the.ubik <at> gmail.com> writes:

I am on windows 7 Pro - mingwin

I decided to turn autocrlf to false and use .gitattributes instead and was

bitten by this bug :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13531988/git-line-endings-renormalize-

does-not-seem-to-checkout-the-right-line-endings

It took me 2 days to figure this out

Please fix

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+1, this is a significant issue downstream in Git for Windows:



https://github.com/msysgit/git/issues/57



Effectively this renders .gitattributes useless for the scenario of 
enforcing normalized line ending characters.