[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Added additional note to fate.texi to describe the importance of not checking out files from git with core.autocrlf set to true

[Clément Bœsch]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 04:48:27PM -0700, Aaron Levinson wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/doc/fate.texi b/doc/fate.texi
> index 7a96c25..f3b8c0c8 100644
> --- a/doc/fate.texi
> +++ b/doc/fate.texi
> @@ -77,6 +77,16 @@ FATE_SAMPLES=fate-suite/ make fate
>  @float NOTE
>  Do not put a '~' character in the samples path to indicate a home
>  directory. Because of shell nuances, this will cause FATE to fail.
> +
> +In addition, FATE will fail if files are checked out from git such
> +that @kbd{@key{CR}@key{LF}} is used for line endings.  This will occur
> +on Windows when git is installed using the default options, because
> +that causes git's @var{core.autocrlf} setting to be set to
> + at option{true}.  Make sure to set @var{core.autocrlf} to @option{input}
> +or @option{false}, or, in the case that the repository has already
> +been cloned, it is possible to get past this by executing the
> +following command in the top-level ffmpeg directory: @command{find
> +-name '*.h' -type f | xargs dos2unix}.
>  @end float
>  

This is documented in doc/git-howto.texi, isn't it?

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Clément B.
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