git config --global push.default nothing
{endcode}
-On Windows you may also want to run:
+**On Windows you must run:**
{code}
git config --global core.autocrlf false
{endcode}
-This stops git on Windows from changing the line endings.
-
-Alternatively, if you do want to use =core.autocrlf=, then you should also enable =core.safecrlf=:
-
-{code}
-git config --global core.autocrlf true
-git config --global core.safecrlf true
-{endcode}
-
-The =core.safecrlf= option forces git to ensure that converting CRLF to LF and vice versa will not corrupt the data. This does not concern most text files, but it may save you from killing a perfectly good binary file.
+This stops git on Windows from changing the line endings. Without this
+as you clone onto a windows box files are modified when the clone
+is made. One of the most visible effects of this is patches failing
{subsection: Cloning the main HTCondor source repository}
