Hi Gábor,

On Wed, 12 Dec 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 12:35:46PM -0800, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
> > From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
> > 
> > The new test_oid machinery in the test library requires reading
> > some information from t/oid-info/hash-info and t/oid-info/oid.
> > The shell logic that reads from these files is sensitive to CRLF
> > line endings, causing a problem when the test suite is run on a
> > Windows machine that converts LF to CRLF.
> 
> "What problem?" is what people will ask when they read this commit
> message in the future.

The test script (not test case) fails with the rather terrifying message

	error: bug in the test script: bad hash algorithm

See e.g. line 958 of the Build & Test log in the Windows phase of
https://dev.azure.com/git-for-windows/git/_build/results?buildId=26757

Ciao,
Dscho

> Please include the relevant details in the commit message instead of
> the cover letter.
> 
> > Exclude the files in this folder from this conversion.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
> > ---
> >  .gitattributes | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
> > index acf853e029..3738cea7eb 100644
> > --- a/.gitattributes
> > +++ b/.gitattributes
> > @@ -13,3 +13,4 @@
> >  /Documentation/gitk.txt conflict-marker-size=32
> >  /Documentation/user-manual.txt conflict-marker-size=32
> >  /t/t????-*.sh conflict-marker-size=32
> > +/t/oid-info/* eol=lf
> > -- 
> > gitgitgadget
>