Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 16:16 UTC
Message-ID: <45D335C3.E28D28E0@eudaptics.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702131053110.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, applied.  I think git-apply has separate codepaths for
> > both reading and writing; I won't look into them before 1.5.0
> > but people are welcome to help advancing the cause before I get
> > to it ;-).
> 
> Actually, I did it myself.
> 
> This is a "lazy man's auto-CRLF", and it really is pretty simple.

Thanks a lot, busy beaver! I gave this a quick spin with a few interesting operations: merges and rebase. Merges leave the merge results with only LFs behind. Rebasing seems to work as expected (working files have CRLFs), except when merges are needed.

Doesn't git-unpack-file also need to call into the converter?

-- Hannes