Subject: Re: [boost] Post-git forking process
From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-22 20:25:03
On 11/22/2013, 6:20 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
> ... The first thing I noticed was EOL-related issues which prevented me
>> >from (I think) checking out different branches. For example, bootstrap.bat
>> >was "modified" even though I had never touched it after a clone.
>> >Eventually, I got past this somehow but I can't remember how. I was
>> >checking out on a Mac.
>> >
> The EOL-related issues you describe were an irritation until recently, but
> seem to have cleared. Please let us know if a fresh clone still has those
> problems for you.
I checked my ~/.gitconfig and I saw that I had autocrlf=input. This
seems like it was added by some GUI tool I installed at some point.
Removing this and doing another clone seems to have fixed the problem.
Thanks,
Sohail