From: Torsten Bögershausen Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 04:17:49 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] correct blame for files commited with CRLF Message-ID: <57048DED.9000904@web.de> In-Reply-To: On 05.04.16 23:12, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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.