Re: renormalize histroy with smudge/clean-filter, again

Still struggling with my filter problem.

Here is what I do:

- Set up a clean filter which enforces CRLF (yes, for this specific use
  case I want CRLF even on linux)

- Smudge filter does not modify the file at all

- Set up git to fail when filter fails, so I can double-check that the
  filter is actually runnning:

   $ grep -A3 filter..etsfile ~/.gitconfig
   [filter "etsfile"]
      required = true
      clean = ets-utils -c
      smudge = ets-utils -s %f

- Specify file as non-text and install the filter:

    $ grep etsfile .gitattributes
    */P -text filter=etsfile
    $ git commit .gitattributes

- Check that git gets attributes as I want them:

    $ git --attr-source=$(git rev-parse HEAD) check-attr -a P-0113/P
    P-0113/P: text: unset
    P-0113/P: filter: etsfile
    $ git ls-files --eol P-0113/P
    i/lf    w/      attr/-text              P-0113/P

- Create helper for renormalization

    $ cat renormalization-helper
    #! /bin/sh -e
    git add --renormalize .
    git diff --quiet --cached || \
        git commit --amend --no-edit
    
- Run the renormalization for the linear history:

    $ git --attr-source=$(git rev-parse HEAD) \
         rebase --root -X renormalize \
         -x $(dirname $0)/renormalize-helper

So at this point, I'd expect the falie to have CRLF line endings. But it doesn't, so I do:

    $ rm -rf P-0113
    git checkout  --attr-source=$(git rev-parse HEAD) P-0113

Still no CRLF, so I look at what is stored by git:

    $ git --attr-source=$(git rev-parse HEAD) show 873a9b:P-0113/P |less -U

Again, no CRLF.

So I check all revisions in the history. Resut: no revision has CRLF.

So the renormalization process does not work for me at all.

Any ideas?