Compiling and using master on macOS

[Stephan Witt]

Am 15.07.2020 um 10:44 schrieb Daniel <xracoonx at gmx.de>:
> 
> On 15/7/20 9:39, Stephan Witt wrote:
>> Am 13.07.2020 um 03:16 schrieb Daniel <xracoonx at gmx.de>:
>>> 
>>> On 2020-07-11 12:57, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
>>>> to get rid of the wrong line endings. In this case, check your git
>>>> configuration about the setting of "autocrlf". You may have it configured
>>>> for Windows instead of unix.
>>> 
>>> By the way, I did not change anything in the git configuration. So, maybe it would be a good idea to add that and how to change this to the macOS "how to“.
>> I’m not sure how you came into this trouble. I have the git binary in /usr/bin - this should be the original Apple utility installed by Xcode. I didn’t change anything either.
>> How did you get your git clone? There must be something special with it. Perhaps you changed something with your git configuration in the past or you’re using a copy or network mount of a windows clone?
>> Stephan
> 
> I installed git a while ago before I installed Xcode because I wanted to have a look at the LyX sources and without having enough space for Xcode. I used brew or the macOS installer from https://git-scm.com/download/mac.
> 
> I'll check which method I used when I am back on the MacBook. I will then try to remove the LyX git clone I have and re-clone. If that doesn't help, will try to uninstall whichever version I installed before I installed Xcode.
> 
> The only other thing that I used git for is working in the cloud on files that I am using both on Windows and macOS. Maybe git recognized that the files where originally created on Windows and changed it's configuration automatically? But that seems unlikely.
> 
> Daniel

To print your current settings you may use this:

$ git config --list 
credential.helper=osxkeychain
user.name=Stephan Witt
user.email=switt at lyx.org
core.excludesfile=/Users/stephan/.gitignore_global
core.precomposeunicode=true
core.ignorecase=true
alias.up=pull --rebase
push.default=matching
commit.template=/Users/stephan/.stCommitMsg

Stephan