Re: [PATCH v8 07/10] convert: unify the "auto" handling of CRLF

RFH, the normalization as descrived in Documentation/gitattributes.txt does not work anymore:

From a clean working directory:

------------------------------------------------- $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes $ rm .git/index # Remove the index to force Git to $ git reset # re-scan the working directory $ git status # Show files that will be normalized $ git add -u $ git add .gitattributes $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization" -------------------------------------------------

I have different ideas, how a a normalizatio  can be done:

A) ------------------------------------------------- $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes $ rm .git/index $ git add . $ git status # Show files that will be normalized $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization" -------------------------------------------------

B) $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes && $ git add .gitattributes && $ git ls-files --eol | egrep '^i/(crlf|mixed).*attr/(text|auto)' | ( TAB=$(printf "\t") ; sed -e "s/.*$TAB/dos2unix /" ) >/tmp/$$ && $ /bin/sh /tmp/$$ && $ rm -f /tmp/$$ && $ git add -u && $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"

C) Teach "git add" to learn --renormalize and then ------------------------------------------------- $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes $ git add -u --renormalize $ git add .gitattributes $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization" -------------------------------------------------

(None of them is really tested)

A) may loose the execute bit
B) dos2unix is not installed everywhere (like Mac OS)
C) seems to most attractive, but I couldn't find out how to forward
   options from "git add" into convert.c

Any help is appreciated.