From: Ben Boeckel Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:49:59 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mention that `eol` can change the dirty status of paths Message-ID: <20170830134959.GA28282@megas.kitware.com> In-Reply-To: <20170824055054.GA32617@tor.lan> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 07:50:54 +0200, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > This attribute sets a specific line-ending style to be used in the > working directory. It enables end-of-line conversion without any > -content checks, effectively setting the `text` attribute. > +content checks, effectively setting the `text` attribute. Note that > +setting this attribute on paths which are in the index with CRLF > +line endings makes the paths to be considered dirty. > +Adding the path to the index again will normalize the line > +endings in the index. Yes, that sounds better. Will resubmit the patch. --Ben