Add the valuable hint that Git's source code needs to be checked out with Unix line endings to be compiled inside Vagrant

Johannes Schindelin 2015-09-24 16:49:11 +02:00
parent 683c4b7662
commit 39831351f0

@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ To compile and install Git, you will have to run `make clean` first because *Git
# Alternative to the Git SDK way
If you cannot download and install the Git SDK for some reason or other, you could also clone [the Git source code](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git) using [Git for Windows](https://git-for-windows.github.io/) instead. If Git for Windows does not even work for you, you could even download the source code [as a `.zip`](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/archive/master.zip) and unpack it.
If you cannot download and install the Git SDK for some reason or other, you could also clone [the Git source code](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git) using [Git for Windows](https://git-for-windows.github.io/) instead, but make sure that Unix line endings are used: `git clone -c core.autocrlf=false https://github.com/git-for-windows/git vagrant-git`. If Git for Windows does not even work for you, you could also download the source code [as a `.zip`](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/archive/master.zip) and unpack it.
After that, continue with the `vagrant up` step above.