Re: git on Windows (was: Re: git not fetching from origin...)

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 5/26/09 2:57 AM, "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 
> Johannes Schindelin Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:37 AM
> 
>>>>>>>  4) Recommend a CR/LF behavior.
>>>>>>>     Use Unix style line endings?
>>>>>>>     Use Windows style line endings?
>>>>>>>     Commit line endings as they are?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Again, I think the default is sane here (unless somebody
>>>>>> fscks up and
>>>>>> commits files with CR/LF line endings).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or Mac line endings.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It is essential to use the default in my opinion,
>>>>> so I'll make this clear.  Perhaps I should also
>>>>> mention that any files pushed (by others) to
>>>>> remote/origin/master with Mac line endings screw
>>>>> up a Windows respository when pulled.  The only
>>>>> way out, as far as I have been able to discover,
>>>>> is for someone with write access to fix them
>>>>> immediately.
>>>> 
>>>> Mac line endings will pretty much screw everybody, including
>>>> Mac users, as
>>>> Git's diff engine (which is responsible for merging, too)
>>>> relies on LF
>>>> being the last byte in every line.
>>>> 
>>>> But then, I am not aware of anyone managing to get LilyPond to
>>>> run on
>>>> MacOS < 10.*, and on MacOSX, the native line ending is LF.
>>> 
>>> Even so, Mac line endings have found their way
>>> into Lily's remote/origin/master several times
>>> in the last couple of years.  I thought only
>>> Windows was affected, as no one else seemed to be
>>> concerned about it.  I fixed them as soon as
>>> they appeared.
>> 
>> Oh... Well, you probably did not do much merging on these files as
>> long as
>> they were CR-only, I guess... ;-)
> 
> Exactly so!  The first time it happened was
> quite traumatic.  Now I know what to do it's
> just a nuisance.  Fortunately they show up in
> my repo as soon as I try to merge after fetching
> from remote, so I spot them right away and push a
> fix.

I suppose that CR-only endings might come from me, using a Mac with
Entourage as my email client.  When I save a patch file from Entourage as
text, it shows up as CR-only endings.

When I make my own patches, they're Unix line endings.

Trevor, could you do a quick search for the fixes you've pushed, and
identify the patches that caused the problem?

Thanks,

Carl