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Re: [PATCH 3/3] Revert "git-svn: always initialize with core.autocrlf=false"

From
Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
Date
Mar 4, 2010, 10:24 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
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> Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > git-svn dcommit uses diff-tree (which does not apply CRLF conversion) to
>> > generate SVN commits, so there never were any CRLF conversion issues when
>> > commiting in the first place.
>>
>> Uhm, this comment is slightly wrong. diff-tree is used to find out if
>> there's a change in a file at all. cat_blob(), which in turn uses "git
>> cat-file", is used to get the file contents.
>>
>> Sorry for the noise.
>
> Hi Erik,
>
> Yes, diff-tree is only used to find changed paths, not the actual
> content changes.  git svn always uses entire blobs from cat-file.
>
> So cat-file won't do CRLF conversions at all, meaning this change is
> safe for previously created repos, correct?
Correct.

But existing git-svn clones (that was cloned after d3c9634 was introduced) will still have autocrlf-conversions disabled anyway (because d3c9634 disabled it), so people shouldn't see any difference before either re-cloning or manually enabling core.autocrlf in the repo. I don't think there's any way to automatically remove the config option that d3c9634 set up without potentially stepping on the user's toes. And I have a gut-feeling that it would be wrong thing to do anyway.

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund
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  1. 1/3 hash-object: support --stdin-paths with --no-filtersErik Faye-Lund, Mar 3, 2010
  2. 2/3 git-svn: support fetch with autocrlf onErik Faye-Lund, Mar 3, 2010
  3. 3/3 Revert "git-svn: always initialize with core.autocrlf=false"Erik Faye-Lund, Mar 3, 2010
  4. Erik Faye-LundMar 3, 2010
  5. Eric WongMar 4, 2010
  6. Erik Faye-LundMar 4, 2010
  7. Dmitry PotapovMar 4, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2010
  9. Eric WongMar 5, 2010

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