From: Alain Schneble <a.s@realize.ch>
To: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Minor doc improvement in nt/INSTALL.W64
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 21:34:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8637lz44lu.fsf@realize.ch> (raw)
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Hello
Once again, I stumbled across the newline issue when running autogen.sh
on MS Windows, caused by a wrong GIT/core.autocrlf setting. In this
regard, I think it would be worth to refine a passage in nt/INSTALL.W64
as follows:
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From dd2f6178176a78d4440776addb68c842a7be58dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alain Schneble <a.s@realize.ch>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 21:01:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Refine comment on GIT core.autocrlf in nt/INSTALL.W64
---
nt/INSTALL.W64 | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/nt/INSTALL.W64 b/nt/INSTALL.W64
index e109c6f..970bb20 100644
--- a/nt/INSTALL.W64
+++ b/nt/INSTALL.W64
@@ -85,7 +85,14 @@ in your MSYS2 environment with:
The autocrlf feature of Git may interfere with the configure file, so it is
best to disable this feature by running the command:
- git config core.autocrlf false
+ git config --global core.autocrlf false
+
+The --global (or --system) option is required as the configuration
+variable must be set before cloning the GIT repository.
+Alternatively, to use a repository-local variable, specify --config
+option to git clone:
+
+ git clone --config core.autocrlf=false ...
* Get the Emacs source code
--
2.8.1.windows.1
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Do you agree?
Thanks,
Alain
next reply other threads:[~2016-08-20 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-20 19:34 Alain Schneble [this message]
2016-09-19 1:47 ` Minor doc improvement in nt/INSTALL.W64 Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2016-09-19 6:33 ` Alain Schneble
2016-09-19 11:06 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2016-09-19 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-29 9:17 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
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