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

Daniel James writes:

On 27 November 2013 07:18, Niall Douglas wrote:

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On 27 Nov 2013 at 7:10, Daniel James wrote:

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On 27 November 2013 03:54, Dave Abrahams wrote:

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The conversion represents the file contents from SVN losslessly.

Then the gitattributes file should probably reflect that.

We've already had this discussion on this list several times now. The way conversion is currently represents the lowest amount of data loss. That's why they chose that option.

I'm not saying the conversion should be changed. I'm saying that the gitattributes file should represent the conversion. It currently doesn't which is why there are problems. It's claiming that "*.bat", "*.svg" and "*.vsproj" files have normalised line endings, but they don't and that confuses git.

The .gitattributes file is part of the conversion. Its exact contents can be changed at the cost of another conversion run.