From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:54:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Schrödinger's diff
Message-ID: <7v8wizanqr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <279b37b20907071717r71f982b6u7333ff10fadfc39@mail.gmail.com>

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.