doc: add note about autocrlf required for tests

Adds a note to test/README.md that setting autocrlf to true when checking out sources is required for the tests to run successfully. PR-URL: #20752 Ref: #18967 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Anatoli Papirovski <[email protected]>
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@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ directory, see [the guide on writing tests](../doc/guides/writing-tests.md).
 On how to run tests in this directory, see
 [the contributing guide](../doc/guides/contributing/pull-requests.md#step-6-test).
 
+For the tests to successfully run on Windows, Node.js has to be checked out from
+GitHub with the `autocrlf` git config flag set to true.
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 ## Test Directories
 
 |Directory          |Runs on CI     |Purpose        |