Re: [Libusb-devel] CRLF in files checked out on Windows

[Segher B. <se...@ke...>]

> It really sucks bigtime that MSYS autoconf can not handle CRLF. :(

Yes, and someone who cares about msys should figure out what is
happening there.  It makes no sense at all to have some workarounds
for something that might or not be abug, is not even understood by
us, that will affect everything and everyone.

Are normal source files (say, C text) in msys LF or CRLF?

> Changing crlf settings in git never makes it change what is checked
> out.

Yeah.  You have to do a fresh checkout if you change settings that
change what a checkout will look like.  Git does not track what
settings were used for the checked out files (or the index).

> Cygwin is *NOT* Windows. So using a Windows tool such as TortoiseGit
> or msysGit to check out something that will be used Cygwin is not
> correct, should not be expected to work, and must not be optimized
> for. Make sure to use a Cygwin tool for Cygwin testing. I guess LF
> may be the native line ending in Cygwin, which would explain why
> Xiaofan never has problems with line endings.

That is my understanding as well.


Segher