Re: [PATCH v1] correct blame for files commited with CRLF

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Apr 6, 2016, 04:17 UTC
Message-ID: <57048DED.9000904@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqegaj220t.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 05.04.16 23:12, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> tboegi@web.de writes:
> 
>> +	git config core.autocrlf true &&
>> +	mv crlfinrepo tmp &&
>> +	git checkout crlfinrepo &&
>> +	rm tmp &&
> 
> Why not just "rm -f crlfinrepo" and "git checkout crlfinrepo"?

The intention was to get a new inode number, which marks the file in the working tree as modified, regardless of mtime.

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