When initializing from WeSay’s Subversion repository, (git svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk http://www.wesay.org/code/WeSay) I found that I was then told that I had a ton of files that had changed. Turns out on Windows, git has core.autocrlf = true by default — a good thing. But git-svn apparently doesn’t take this into account and if you have crlf’s stored in the svn repository, they will be pushed into the git repository as well. So for now we have a repository that has crlf’s in it instead of just lf’s which get translated depending on the platform. Setting core.autocrlf to false and then doing a hard reset will make this work for now, although not as nicely as we would like. (git config core.autocrlf=false; git reset –hard)