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'autocrlf' in ~/.gitconfig can break "guix pull" checkouts

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Message #26 received at 52801 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Grigory Shepelev <shegeley <at> gmail.com>, Ludovic
 Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 52801 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52801: Guile misbehaves in case of escapes and carriage
 returns, sometimes breaking "guix pull"
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 22:06:29 +0100

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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.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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