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| author | Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de> | 2012-04-12 19:42:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de> | 2012-04-12 23:20:58 +0200 |
| commit | 6048fd22ee409bd553014ed62e3f1a6a62dba39e (patch) | |
| tree | 6c574f4fe810217b9e488662d8d689356be9feba /doc/git-howto.texi | |
| parent | baaab6069a261354a1c9470f3185686ad85166c6 (diff) | |
| download | ffmpeg-6048fd22ee409bd553014ed62e3f1a6a62dba39e.tar.gz | |
git-howto: Explain how to avoid Windows line endings in git checkouts.
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diff --git a/doc/git-howto.texi b/doc/git-howto.texi index b01981e05e..4d3e2354fc 100644 --- a/doc/git-howto.texi +++ b/doc/git-howto.texi @@ -65,6 +65,14 @@ git clone git@@git.libav.org:libav.git <target> This will put the Libav sources into the directory @var{<target>} and let you push back your changes to the remote repository. +Make sure that you do not have Windows line endings in your checkouts, +otherwise you may experience spurious compilation failures. One way to +achieve this is to run + +@example +git config --global core.autocrlf false +@end example + @section Updating the source tree to the latest revision |