Re: [Firebird-docs] Test repository CVS to git migration

[Mark R. <ma...@la...>]

On 2017-10-18 15:35, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> Afternoon Paul,
> 
> On 18/10/17 14:08, Paul Vinkenoog wrote:
> 
>> A number of source files in my (Windows) CVS working dir have Unix 
>> line endings though, whereas their Git counterparts have DOS endings.
>> 
>> That's no problem, as long as it doesn't lead to a huge number of 
>> 'changes' and log messages when such a file is committed, cluttering 
>> the history and drowning the real changes.
> 
> This is a documented feature of Git.
> 
> Github has a document about how you can set up your git client to cope
> with this. The URL is
> https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/.
> 
> From the online "Pro Git" book, we have this from
> https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configuration
> (scroll down!):
> 
> 
> core.autocrlf

Although the information about core.autocrlf is correct, the presence of 
the .gitattributes with "* text=auto" will enable this with the platform 
specific line-endings even if you don't have core.autocrlf enabled or 
configured.

Mark