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Re: Schrödinger's diff

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 7, 2009, 19:48 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> .... But even that might have holes,
> I'm afraid -- we don't always look at all of the config in every
> command, though perhaps we do for such core functionality.

I personally do not think it is worth it. If you change the crlf, clean/smudge, or anything of that sort, just doing a "rm .git/index" followed by "git reset --hard" would restore sanity to your work tree, no?

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