From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:08:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn now work with crlf convertion enabled.
Message-ID: <7vbq0dtawp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <37fcd2780808010047t4ae20168y65103e90897dd3f8@mail.gmail.com>

"Dmitry Potapov" <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Alexander Litvinov
> <litvinov2004@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I dont think that disabling convertion is a good way. I really want to convert
>> my files.
>
> To being able to synchronize efficiently in both ways, you need to store
> files exactly as they were received from SVN then there will be no
> problem with applying binary delta patch. All CRLF conversion should be
> done on checkout and checkin from/to Git repository.

Ahh,... if that is the philosophy, perhaps we can teach --stdin-paths to
optionally open the file itself and use index_pipe() like --stdin codepath
does?