Re: Schrödinger's diff

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 7, 2009, 22:22 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfxd89lqf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090707195406.GA32131@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> Yes, that works fine, but:
>
>   1. It blows away anything unrelated you might have staged.
>
>   2. You have to know to do it (and you get very confusing results if
>      you don't), which makes it very unfriendly for newbies.
>
>   3. You have to know to do it, and it isn't documented. :)
>
> (3) at least is not too hard to address. And perhaps (2) is not a big
> enough issue to care about. This is not a problem we have seen on the
> list a lot. I suspect it is because most CRLF users are on Windows, and
> therefore have it setup before the tree is checked out, and there are
> simply not all that many clean/smudge users.

A much more important reason is that it is a one-time event. You notice that you screwed up the configuration to use your peculiar work tree representation, and you fix it once and for all. Because not only it is a one-time event but because it is a big-deal event, I do not think it is something people even would want to think about doing it while having local changes, so I suspect #1 is also a non-issue.