From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:25:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [TESTCASE] Failing 'git am' when core.autocrlf=true
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708231225180.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcmqt7oh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>



On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> As you said, there is something else going on.  write-tree is
> about reading the index entries and writing them out as a set of
> trees, and at that point it should not even matter if you have
> garbage in the work tree or if you do not even have a work tree.
> All the crlf conversions have been done when the object hit the
> index, so its reading or not reading core.autocrlf should not
> change its behaviour.

Ok, I just sent out the analysis of this, maybe you should add that as the 
changelog for the one-liner, and sign-off from me.

		Linus