Re: git blame: "Not Committed Yet" with clean WD

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Feb 14, 2014, 19:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20140214191015.GG4582@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <52FC8BA7.30102@gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:08:55AM +0100, Ephrim Khong wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> for files that contain windows line endings in a repository with
> core.autocrlf=input, git blame will show lines as "Not Committed
> Yet", even though they were not modified.
> 
> Example:
> 
> --
> git init
> git config core.autocrlf false
> echo "foo" > a
> unix2dos a
> git add a
> git commit -m "initial commit"
> git config core.autocrlf input
> git status
> git blame a
> --
> 
> Output:
> 
> --
> Reinitialized existing Git repository in /.../testblame2/.git/
> unix2dos: converting file a to DOS format ...
> On branch master
> nothing to commit, working directory clean
> On branch master
> nothing to commit, working directory clean
> 00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2014-02-13 10:02:43 +0100 1) foo
> --
> 
> Is there an easy way to work around this; is this desired behaviour
> or mor a bug?

I'm pretty sure this is a bug. git blame should show the proper information in this case.

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