[libav-commits] download: Explain how to avoid Windows line endings in git checkouts.

[Diego Biurrun]

Module: libav.org
Branch: master
Commit: c12f689b5e42f8e38fd05a4558b7ca1b292c275b

Author:    Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>
Committer: Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>
Date:      Thu Apr 12 19:38:02 2012 +0200

download: Explain how to avoid Windows line endings in git checkouts.

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 src/download |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/download b/src/download
index 1a05b02..43735f4 100644
--- a/src/download
+++ b/src/download
@@ -131,6 +131,16 @@ where <i>CLONE_URL</i> is one of the Git clone URLs listed in the
 table above.
 </p>
 
+<p>
+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
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<pre>git config --global core.autocrlf false</pre>
+</blockquote>
+
 
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