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Re: autoCRLF, git status, git-gui, what is the desired behavior?

From
Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Date
Feb 25, 2007, 22:20 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@verizon.net> writes:
> 
>> ... Is it the case that
>> the size info stored in the index reflects the size of the blob rather
>> than of the working copy?
> 
> The size field among other fields is to cache the last lstat(2)
> information so that later "is the path modified?" question can
> be answered efficiently.  So the size should in general match
> both blob and filesystem but on CRLF filesystems it is compared
> against and updated with the data from the filesystem.  There
> could be a subtle bug that when updating an index entry we might
> be incorrectly storing the size of the blob, but I haven't
> checked.
> 
> 
> 
I instrumented read-cache.c with:
@@ -818,6 +822,8 @@ int read_cache_from(const char *path)
         struct cache_entry *ce = (struct cache_entry *) ((char *) 
cache_mmap + offset);
         offset = offset + ce_size(ce);
         active_cache[i] = ce;
+       printf("name: %s\n", ce->name);
+       printf("size: %u\n", ntohl(ce->ce_size)
     }
     index_file_timestamp = st.st_mtime;
     while (offset <= cache_mmap_size - 20 - 8) {

And I get, post commit:
name: foo
size: 21452

$ git-update-index
$ git-runstatus
...
name: foo
size: 20517
...

Note:  foo's size with lf endings is 20517
                   with crlf endings is 21452

So, what I think is happening:

I add a file with crlf endings: it gets converted to lf, but the file 
size with crlf is saved in the index.

Post commit, the file is replaced with lf endings in the working 
directory and now has size 205167. However, the index reflects the 
pre-converted file with crlf endings, not the post-converted with lf 
endings.

Remember: I have core.autocrlf=input, so all files have lf on output. 
Apparently the working file is updated by this process. The problem is 
the index is not updated to reflect that.

Mark
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  1. Mark LevedahlFeb 25, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 25, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 25, 2007
  4. Mark LevedahlFeb 25, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 25, 2007
  6. Mark LevedahlFeb 25, 2007
  7. Mark LevedahlFeb 25, 2007
  8. Mark LevedahlFeb 25, 2007
  9. Shawn O. PearceFeb 26, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 26, 2007
  11. Shawn O. PearceFeb 26, 2007

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