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diff --git a/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst b/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst index b26df141b86..7cfd67ce715 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst @@ -492,8 +492,16 @@ Git Mirror Git mirrors are available for a number of LLVM subprojects. These mirrors sync automatically with each Subversion commit and contain all necessary git-svn marks (so, you can recreate git-svn metadata locally). Note that right now -mirrors reflect only ``trunk`` for each project. You can do the read-only Git -clone of LLVM via: +mirrors reflect only ``trunk`` for each project. + +.. note:: + + On Windows, first you will want to do ``git config --global core.autocrlf + false`` before you clone. This goes a long way toward ensuring that + line-endings will be handled correctly (the LLVM project mostly uses Linux + line-endings). + +You can do the read-only Git clone of LLVM via: .. code-block:: console |