From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:03:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: added d2u to have unix style testfiles even in textmode
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708071959470.23971@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <11865269472121-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>



On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>
> This is needed if the content of files is compared with
> precomputed sha1s or stored expected results.
> 
> ***WARNING***
> This patch is useful for testing and illustrating the problem
> but not thought to be applied to any official git branch.

Quite frankly, *much* rather than having d2u everywhere, why not make the 
default for DOS/Windows be to have

	[core]
		autocrlf=true

and then none of this should hopefully be needed.

(We still need to write the internal git objects using O_BINARY to make 
sure that cygwin doesn't corrupt binary data, but that's a totally 
different issue).

			Linus