From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 01:46:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Line ending normalization doesn't work as expected
Message-ID: <20171005014651.GT19555@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbmlm9y94.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> 	git checkout --renormalize .
>> 	git status; # Show files that will be normalized
>> 	git commit; # Commit the result
>>
>> What do you think?  Would you be interested in writing a patch for it?
>> ("No" is as always an acceptable answer.)
>
> I actually think what is being requested is the opposite, i.e. "the
> object registered in the index have wrong line endings, and the
> safe-crlf is getting in the way to prevent me from correcting by
> hashing the working tree contents again to register contents with
> corrected line endings, even with 'git add .'".
>
> So I would understand if your suggestion were for
>
> 	git checkin --renormalize .
>
> but not "git checkout".  And it probably is more familiar to lay
> people if we spelled that as "git add --renormalize ." ;-)

Good catch.  You understood correctly --- "git add --renormalize" is
the feature that I think is being hinted at here.

Thanks,
Jonathan