Re: Fix for normalization of foreign idents

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 8, 2010, 04:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20100908043227.GD24444@capella.cs.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <yf9sk1l73bt.fsf@chiyo.mc.pp.se>

Marcus Comstedt wrote:

> Ok.  I'll shortly post an updated patch with some test cases.

Thanks.

> As for documentation, I suppose that would mean documenting the
> "foreign ident" concept as a whole, as I don't think there's currently
> anything about that in the documentation?  Would the `ident` section
> of gitattributes.txt be a suitable place for this?

Yep, that sounds good (though by no means necessary either).

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