Re: Can we amend gitignore so git postgresql works with git on windows using Msys/Mingw64

On 26 March 2016 at 09:26, Regina Obe  wrote:
> The problem is I can't compile from git postgresql, and the issue is I think
> because my git when it pulls down the files they come in as CRLF which gets
> all screwed up when compiling under msys/ mingw64.
> So I end up with non-sense messages like this:

Sounds like git is setup to convert the line endings to CRLF.

Check:
git config --list | grep crlf

Likely this will be set to "true"

You can change the setting with:
git config --global core.autocrlf input

drop the --global if you only want to change the current repo.

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