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

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> If you try this:
>
>  1. Install Git for Windows (from the msysgit project)
>  2. Put
>
> 	[core]
> 		autocrlf = false
> 		eol = native
>
>     in your .gitconfig.
>  3. Clone a project with
>
> 	*.txt text
>
>     in its .gitattributes.
>
> Then with current git, any text files checked out have LF line
> endings, instead of the expected CRLF.
>
> Cc: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> ---
> Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:
>
>> Introduce a new configuration variable, "core.eol", that allows the user
>> to set which line endings to use for end-of-line-normalized files in the
>> working directory.  It defaults to "native", which means CRLF on Windows
>> and LF everywhere else.
>
> The following fixup has been sitting in my tree (but not tested on
> Windows) for a couple of weeks.  Sensible?
>
> I don't know what the right choice for Cygwin is; probably LF unless
> there is some way to detect the systemwide setting at run time.

Has anybody in Windows land any input?  I don't think what I do before
1.7.3 in my tree would matter much, so I am not applying this myself.