From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:25:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Respecting core.autocrlf when showing objects
Message-ID: <7vk5gxc4gz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806101632570.1783@racer>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
>
>> When you use 'git show <rev>:<file>' or 'git show :<stage>:<file>', the 
>> objects are shows as they are in the object store, ignoring the 
>> core.autocrlf configuration.
>
> I think this is the correct behaviour: inside the object repository, the 
> files are supposed to be LF clean.
>
> Likewise, things in the unmerged stages are in the index, which again is 
> not the working directory, so they should be LF clean.
>
> _Only_ when writing a file to the working directory, it should get 
> clobbered.

I'd agree with your argument on general principle, but it might make sense
to give an option to let you say "here is a blob contents, and use the
attribute for this path to munge it out to the filesystem."  I am not sure
if that belongs to "git show" Porcelain, though.  It _could_ be more like:

        git checkout-blob $blob_sha1 $path

that (1) reads the blob object specified by its object name, (2)
grabs attribute for the $path, and (3) applies convert_to_worktree()
filtering given that attribute and deposits the results to $path.

Alternatively, the interface could be:

        git cat-file blob $blob_sha1 |
        git filter-blob --use-attr-for=$path >$path.old

so that you can then do:

	git diff --no-index $path.old $path

I dunno.