Byte order mark always make some files modified

[Chenxiong Qi]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:
> --On December 27, 2014 at 9:22:12 AM -0800 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>> On Dec 27, 2014, at 3:50 AM, Chenxiong Qi <qcxhome at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Following files are always marked as modified in my repos when swtich
>>> between maint and master back and forth, sometimes these modified
>>> files prevent git from git-checkout, meanwhile they cannot be stashed
>>> or checked out with `checkout --`.
>>>
>>> modified:   doc/README-de.win32-bin.txt
>>> modified:   doc/README-fr.win32-bin.txt
>>> modified:   doc/README-it.win32-bin.txt
>>> modified:   doc/README-nl.win32-bin.txt
>>> modified:   doc/README-zh_CN.win32-bin.txt
>>> modified:   doc/README-zh_TW.win32-bin.txt
>>> modified:   doc/README.win32-bin.txt
>>> modified:   doc/examples/downloaded.mt940
>>>
>>> I searched archived mails in gnucash-devel, set `git config --global
>>> core.autocrlf input`. However, this only affects the first time when
>>> checkout branch from master to maint. Above issue happens again when
>>> checkout back to master from maint. Really confused, have no idea why
>>> this happens and not sure whether it's an CRLF-related issue.
>>
>>
>> Those files' line endings are supposed to be controlled by
>> .gitattributes, which overrides the core.autocrlf setting. I tweaked
>> the globs in .gitattributes 2 Dec., and Mike Alexander removed the
>> line endings from the repo on the 8th. This worked correctly for me
>> just now, with no core.autocrlf setting. Did you experience the
>> problem with a fresh checkout or an older one?

Yeah, reproduced this problem with fresh checkout several times.

>>
>> README.win32-bin.txt and downloaded.mt940 don't have BOMs.
>
>
> And what sort of machine is this on?  Windows, Mac, or Linux?  I have
> core.autocrlf set to "input" and it seems to work ok for me on my Mac. You
> might want to reread the section on "End-of-line conversion" in the "git
> help attributes" man page.

Linux. I'm running Fedora 21.

>
>               Mike
>



-- 
Regards,
Chenxiong Qi