windows line endings and git

[Alan Gates]

After Dmitry checked in HIVE-11536 and I fetched and merged, I had 
issues in my git repository with line endings.  It insisted on modifying 
the files without me so much as opening the files, and would not let me 
switch branches until I dealt with it.  I think it automatically changed 
the windows ending to the unix ending when I did the merge in from 
Apache.  I solved this by committing the changes and pushing that back 
upstream.  I assumed this would work as when I've checked in patches 
from Dmitry before the right thing seems to happen.  Please let me know 
if I've messed something up for others.

But now to the core question.  Is there something I need to set in my 
git config to be able to handle this?  Or is there something Dmitry 
needs to set in his so that when he checks in it doesn't bork unix based 
users?  I poked around github for information on windows based line 
endings but it wasn't clear to me what I needed to do.

Alan.