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Re: Schrödinger's diff

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 8, 2009, 02:54 UTC
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Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com> writes:
> So what's the best way of "fixing once and for all" a repo infected with
> carriage returns when you want to use autocrlf=true moving forward?
Didn't "rm -f .git/index && git reset --hard HEAD" work?
> And a hopefully less annoying one:
>
> Would you accept a patch explaining how "git reset --hard" doesn't
> actually rebuild the index from scratch,...
Absolutely.
> ... and how "git read-head" might
> be recommended in some weird situations?

I am less certain about that; people may have easier-to-read solution than the one with read-tree, I would suspect.

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