Re: Git on Windows, CRLF issues

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 23, 2008, 08:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20080423081025.GB11935@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804230806220.18401@ds9.cixit.se>

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:11:49AM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:

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> I ended up doing CRLF conversion for most of the repositories I had
> converted. Fortunately, most of them had a single branch, so after
> having created a small script that did CRLF->LF for the text files, I
> could do a
> 
>   git filter-branch --tree-filter 'c:/temp/crlf2lf.sh' \
>                     --tag-name-filter 'cat' HEAD
> 
> on each repository and get everything converted during my lunch break.

Sure, but that is quite slow on a larger tree, since it has to do a full checkout for each commit. The idea of the specialized filter was to avoid that. But if your project was small enough to do it that way, that certainly works.

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> What I couldn't figure out is why, after converting everything,
> removing all references to the repositories I cloned from, and removing
> references to the old objects in the reflogs, why
> 
>  git fsck --unreachable
> 
> did not report any unreachable objects? I would have guessed the entire
> old history and its objects would now be invalidated and could be
> killed off.

Did you remove refs/original/ ?

-Peff