Re: Applying .gitattributes text/eol changes

>>> case of missing .git/index, Git freshly writes all working tree files,
>>> ignoring already existing files which already have the correct content.
>>> Maybe this behavior is by intention and makes sense in some cases. In my
>>> case it has adverse effects on IDEs and probably other tools which are
>>> monitoring the file system.
>>
>> ...but changing gitattributes is something you don't do routinely in
>> your workflow; so, at worst there would be an occasional unnecessary run
>> of your build process.
> 
> Our Git-SVN bridge does it, potentially on every pull. This is why we
> currently need to run "rm .git/index && git reset --hard" after every
> pull, resp. every checkout (switching to another commit may result in
> changed .gitattributes as well).

> If a "git checkout" would (optionally) make sure that all EOLs are
> properly set according to .gitattributes, the problem would be resolved.
> As this might be not so easy to implement, my suggestion was to make
> "git reset --hard" work more unobtrusive. I think we can provide a
> corresponding patch, if it has chances to get accepted.