RFR: 8252769: Warn in configure if git config autocrlf has invalid value

Fri Mar 4 14:44:03 UTC 2022

On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 12:00:15 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Over and over again, people are running into issues when their git config has core.autocrlf set to true or input. (This is apparently done by default by some Windows git installations.)
> 
> This will not work with the OpenJDK build system.
> 
> We should check this at configure time and give suitable warning message if this is detected.

Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7690