Re: [BUG?] Fresh clone of jquery.git shows modifications?
On 18. aug. 2010, at 17.50, Thomas Berg wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:18 +0200, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:
>> Git _is_ giving you a real pristine copy, it's just informing you that your repository is not consistent with the attributes you have set.
>
> Marking the files as modified is sometimes a very user-unfriendly way
> of informing the user, at least if just want to work with something
> unrelated, and not actually fix those issues. Maybe there is a better
> way?
There may be, but I'm not sure it would be worth the effort. The reason I started working on CRLF normalization in the first place was because I got tired of seeing spuriously modified files everywhere when using core.autocrlf, so I know how annoying it is. The difference now is that only people using "mis-attributed" repositories are annoyed, instead of anyone who uses core.autocrlf, and as I wrote elsewhere, I don't expect there to be many repositories where this is a problem.
To be clear: triggering the problem not only requires that a crlf attribute is set to something other than "false", but also that the corresponding file actually contains CRs.
- Eyvind
Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>