Re: [boost] [git] Line endings in bootstrap.bat on Windows

Gavin Lambert writes:

On 27/11/2013 16:54, Quoth Dave Abrahams:

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Gavin Lambert writes:

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You should only run into trouble if the repository is not LF-only or if your checkout contains mixed-EOL files, either from using editors that altered EOLs (which will be common on Windows if you don't have autocrlf=true) or from changing the autocrlf setting after checking out.

If the conversion is not already normalising line endings to LFs, perhaps it should do so? (With some exceptions for test files specifically for specific EOL handling, if any.)

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings [2] http://git-scm.com/book/ch7-1.html#Formatting-and-Whitespace

The conversion represents the file contents from SVN losslessly.

If by that you mean that you are not converting text files to LF-only

We are not.

(or letting git do that for you via eol=lf or via running the conversion on Windows),

Git doesn't do any conversion in the repository. It can do some conversions at checkout time.

then this is probably the problem.

Converting text files to LF-only is also lossless, as long as they really are text files (and you're not relying on the particular EOL format for eg. some test case).

No, it's not lossless. A lossless conversion is reversible. Dropping CRs is clearly not. By the way, some of the files have intentional mixes of CR and LF for testing purposes.