Re: [boost] Looking for git help for Boost releases

On Jun 3, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Daniel James wrote:

On 3 June 2014 17:15, Niall Douglas wrote:

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On 3 Jun 2014 at 8:39, Marshall Clow wrote:

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One of the missing pieces that we had in SVN was "svn export", which let you check out a particular branch/revision to a local folder, w/o any of the SVN infrastructure (such as .svn folders). It also let you set the line endings of the files, so I could make a release with Windows line endings on a non-windows computer.

git archive works for single repos. No submodule support though, and no CRLF forcing support.

I've just been looking into setting line endings using 'git archive', it can be done using something like:

git -c core.autocrlf=false -c core.eol=crlf archive master

I expect similar configuration settings would work for 'git clone’.

Sadly, this doesn’t work for me, because I have [core] excludesfile = /Users/marshall/.gitignore autocrlf = input in my .gitconfig file. git -c core.autocrlf=false -c core.eol=crlf clone git@github.com:boostorg/boost.git --branch master --single-branch /Sources/boost/releases/windows Cloning into '/Sources/boost/releases/windows'... error: core.autocrlf=input conflicts with core.eol=crlf fatal: bad config file line 8 in /Users/marshall/.gitconfig which is really bizarre, because I’m setting “core.autocrlf” right there on the command line. — Marshall