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Re: crlf with git-svn driving me nuts...

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Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 16, 2008, 21:17 UTC
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:56:18PM -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  core.autocrlf=false is a bad choice for Windows.
> ...
> >  If you do not want problems, you should use core.autocrlf=true
> >  on Windows.
> 
> If you are making the above statements in generally about git, I
> disagree.

I stand corrected. It should be either core.autocrlf=true is you like DOS ending or core.autocrlf=input if you prefer unix-newlines. In both cases, your Git repository will have only LF, which is the Right Thing. The only argument for core.autocrlf=false was that automatic heuristic may incorrectly detect some binary as text and then your tile will be corrupted. So, core.safecrlf option was introduced to warn a user if a irreversable change happens. In fact, there are two possibilities of irreversable changes -- mixed line-ending in text file, in this normalization is desirable, so this warning can be ignored, or (very unlikely) that Git incorrectly detected your binary file as text. Then you need to use attributes to tell Git that this file is binary.

I have not used git-svn on Windows for some time now, because now I have a mirror running on Linux, so I clone directly from it.

Dmitry
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  1. Nigel MagnayApr 16, 2008
  2. Dmitry PotapovApr 16, 2008
  3. Avery PennarunApr 16, 2008
  4. Dmitry PotapovApr 16, 2008
  5. Nigel MagnayApr 16, 2008
  6. Martin LanghoffApr 16, 2008
  7. Avery PennarunApr 16, 2008
  8. Dmitry PotapovApr 16, 2008
  9. Avery PennarunApr 16, 2008
  10. Nigel MagnayApr 16, 2008
  11. Dmitry PotapovApr 17, 2008
  12. Avery PennarunApr 17, 2008
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  14. Dmitry PotapovApr 17, 2008
  15. Nigel MagnayApr 17, 2008
  16. Dmitry PotapovApr 17, 2008
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