Re: Using Format/export-subst Howto.

> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 15.09.2012 00:26:
>>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> you need to "rm file && git checkout file"). If the user has to
>>>>> update $Id$ to match the current sha1 (by remembering to do a
>>>>> more forceful checkout than checkout -f) then one half of that
>>>>> feature is useless.
>>>>
>>>> As if there is any value in "$Id$" _feature_.  It's a checkbox
>>>> item, nothing more ;-).
>>>
>>> Having said that, I think you could do something along this line (I 
>>> am thinking aloud, so there may be leaps in the logic below).
>>> ...
>>
>> You've convinced me not to try this in-core...
> 
> Quite contrary, I think the approach outlined is a reasonable way
> forward.  I do not care about a checkbox feature like $Id$ that is
> incomatible with the fundamental concept in Git, but the approach
> would help people who started their history with wrong CRLF
> settings, tweak the attributes and then scratch their head trying to
> repeatedly run "checkout", "reset --hard", etc. and still never
> seeing the right thing to happen.
>