[postgis-devel] extras/tiger_geocoder/upgrade_geocoder.bat and CRLF

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 12:42:49PM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:

> Recall the reason we added .gitattributes is because otherwise we can't compile on windows under (at least not under mingw) without it.

Is this because checking out the .bat files from SVN downloads them
with LF instead of CRLF ? Can we ask SVN not to mess with text files
and consider them all binary files ? 

> Maybe there is a setting in svn and git where we can say preserve linebreak (that might be same as marking them binary I guess)

Would that work on the windows side ?

--strk;