Subject: bug#52801: Guile misbehaves in case of escapes and carriage returns, sometimes breaking "guix pull"

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:48:00 +0100

Hi Maxime,

Maxime Devos <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Grigory Shepelev schreef op zo 30-01-2022 om 22:45 [+0300]:
>> Seems like the problem was in my .gitconfig file where "autocrlf =
>> true". I set it to "false", and cleared the cache. Then the "guix
>> pull" started to work as expected. 
>
> According to
> <https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/HEAD/include/git2/clone.h#L111>
> and <https://libgit2.org/libgit2/#HEAD/type/git_checkout_options>,
> we can tell libgit to not do CRLF conversion, which would make (guix git)
> more robust.

Indeed.  Looks like Guile-Git doesn’t expose checkout options yet, so
doing that would be the first step.

Maybe Guix should just ignore ~/.gitconfig altogether?

Thanks,
Ludo’.