From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:33:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707241431540.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46A5FDF0.3060801@trolltech.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

> So, it's look like this ('yes' mean CRLF EOL):
>     Repo | Working dir | Convert EOL?
>     ---------------------------------
> 1)  -      LF            no
> 2)  -      CRLF          yes
> 3)  LF     LF            no
> 4)  LF     CRLF          yes
> 5)  CRLF   LF            no
> 6)  CRLF   CRLF          yes
> 
> The problem is that currently 6) is 'yes', and turns the file into a LF file,
> which it shouldn't.

Shouldn't it?  But then you should set core.autocrlf = false, no?

AFAIU the purpose of autocrlf is to _always_ have UNIX line endings in the 
checked in stuff.

Ciao,
Dscho