From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:00:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Importing non-version controlled bits and pieces to Git
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806201359320.6439@racer>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806201339330.4004@ds9.cixit.se>

Hi,

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Peter Karlsson wrote:

> One complicating factor is that I am working with DOS/Windows source 
> code, so all text files have CRLF line-endings, which means converting 
> before feeding to fast-import, or manually doing "git add" with 
> core.autocrlf == true. fast-import can't be set up to do CRLF 
> auto-conversion, can it?

Why not import everything with a CR/LF, and then use filter-branch with a 
really simple tree-filter?  It is slow, alright, but it is safe, too.

Ciao,
Dscho