From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:17:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysgit? bug] crlf double-conversion on win32
Message-ID: <279b37b20910141117s7980c249tab4565c93b389df3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910141601580.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Eric Raible wrote:
>
>>
>> See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/122823/focus=122862
>>
>> In which Junio suggests:
>> $ rm .git/index
>> $ git reset --hard
>>
>> in order to "restore sanity to your work tree"
>
> Of course this is insane as a user interface.  It is not even plumbing.
>
> So I started some time ago to code a "git checkout --fix-crlf", but I
> am not really happy with the user interface.  I think that Git should
> realize itself that something went wrong with the line endings.  If I say
> "git reset --hard", it is just a bug in Git when it insists afterwards
> that the files are modified.

I fully agree that "git reset --hard" should actually, uh, do a hard reset,
as should be clear in the my reply to Junio's suggestion.  So I'm not
advocating "rm .git/index" as a good solution, but simply one that works.