From 7bc2ea811b6ad5dabd11e8ab505e203effa60a3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Conduitry <git@chor.date>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:57:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] readme: mention newlines and cloning on Windows

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 README.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7d0af8ac2e..dc747668b0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ cd svelte
 npm install
 ```
 
+> Many tests depend on newlines being preserved as `<LF>`. On Windows, you can ensure this by cloning with:
+> ```bash
+> git -c core.autocrlf=false clone https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte.git
+> ```
+
 To build the compiler, and all the other modules included in the package:
 
 ```bash