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Re: What's cooking extra

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AYAnthony Youngman <anthony@youngman.org.uk>
Date
May 25, 2010, 08:27 UTC
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On 05/25/10 07:41, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:
> The "safe autocrlf" patch fixes this by not trying to normalize any files that are not already normalized in the index.  This is what you noticed: the files do not show up as dirty and will not have their line endings converted.  The tradeoff is that setting "core.autocrlf" no longer normalizes all text files, only new ones and ones that are already normalized.
>
> You (rightly) expected line endings to be normalized to LF when core.eol=lf, and I do need to fix that in the documentation.  Safe autocrlf _only_ works if you want CRLF line endings in your working directory.
>

Just a suggestion ... For core.autocrlf (or somewhere else more appropriate) could we add to false and true the option "force"?

Bearing in mind "force" is always considered "a bit dangerous", that merely means "I don't care if it has crlf in the repository, change all commits to lf" (and checkouts to crlf if appropriate).

Yep, things are likely to break, but I'm thinking this is the sort of situation where a lead dev could say to themselves "I know what I'm doing, we need to clean up, and if I set that as my options, then I know I can fix any resulting mess".

Cheers, Wol

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  1. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2010
  2. A Large Angry SCMMay 19, 2010
  3. Finn Arne GangstadMay 19, 2010
  4. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 19, 2010
  5. Clemens BuchacherMay 22, 2010
  6. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 22, 2010
  7. Clemens BuchacherMay 22, 2010
  8. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 23, 2010
  9. Clemens BuchacherMay 23, 2010
  10. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 23, 2010
  11. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 23, 2010
  12. Clemens BuchacherMay 24, 2010
  13. Dmitry PotapovMay 24, 2010
  14. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 24, 2010
  15. Clemens BuchacherMay 24, 2010
  16. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 24, 2010
  17. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 24, 2010
  18. Clemens BuchacherMay 24, 2010
  19. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 25, 2010
  20. Anthony YoungmanMay 25, 2010
  21. Eyvind BernhardsenJun 7, 2010
  22. Clemens BuchacherMay 25, 2010
  23. Dmitry PotapovMay 24, 2010
  24. Erik Faye-LundMay 24, 2010
  25. Dmitry PotapovMay 24, 2010
  26. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 21, 2010
  27. René ScharfeMay 22, 2010
  28. 1/8 grep: add test script for binary file handlingRené Scharfe, May 22, 2010
  29. 2/8 grep: grep: refactor handling of binary mode optionsRené Scharfe, May 22, 2010
  30. 3/8 grep: --count over binaryRené Scharfe, May 22, 2010
  31. 4/8 grep: --name-only over binaryRené Scharfe, May 22, 2010
  32. 5/8 grep: use memmem() for fixed string searchRené Scharfe, May 22, 2010
  33. 6/8 grep: continue case insensitive fixed string search after NUL charsRené Scharfe, May 22, 2010
  34. 7/8 grep: use REG_STARTEND for all matching if availableRené Scharfe, May 22, 2010
  35. 8/8 grep: support NUL chars in search strings for -FRené Scharfe, May 22, 2010

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