Re: autocrlf=input and safecrlf (was Re: CVS import [SOLVED])

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 23, 2009, 06:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20090223065615.GA24807@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <2944.77.61.241.211.1235371848.squirrel@hupie.xs4all.nl>

[Can you please wrap your lines? They seem to be about 200 characters,
 and then rewrap the quoted text, but without putting a '>' marker.
 I had a very hard time figuring out what was quoted and what was not.]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:50:48AM +0100, Ferry Huberts (Pelagic) wrote:

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> > I am a bit concerned about a proposal to set safecrlf=false in all
> > cvsimported repositories.  You are turning off the protection
> > against corrupting binary files.  _Even if_ the person has put
> > safecrlf=true into their ~/.gitconfig and thinks they are safe.
> 
> Ok.  I follow and agree. Full circle :-) We're back to Johannes'
> proposal: make sure that autocrlf is set to false. Agree? If so, then
> I'll try to whip up a patch.

But won't that now import CRLF's into your new git repo? Especially on Windows, where (IIRC) cvs gives you files with CRLF by default?

-Peff