Re: [boost] Looking for git help for Boost releases

Subject: Re: [boost] Looking for git help for Boost releases
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-03 13:02:15

On 3 June 2014 17:15, Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 3 Jun 2014 at 8:39, Marshall Clow wrote:
>
>> One of the missing pieces that we had in SVN was "svn export", which let
>> you check out a particular branch/revision to a local folder, w/o any of
>> the SVN infrastructure (such as .svn folders). It also let you set the
>> line endings of the files, so I could make a release with Windows line
>> endings on a non-windows computer.
>
> git archive works for single repos. No submodule support though, and
> no CRLF forcing support.

I've just been looking into setting line endings using 'git archive',
it can be done using something like:

    git -c core.autocrlf=false -c core.eol=crlf archive master

I expect similar configuration settings would work for 'git clone'.