Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 9, 2008, 14:03 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801091401101.31053@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <C3AA823B.10C50%jefferis@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Gregory Jefferis wrote:

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> On 9/1/08 12:41, "Steffen Prohaska" <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
> 
> > I'll further think about "crlf=safe" (see another mail in this 
> > thread). I like the idea of safe because it guarantees that data will 
> > never be corrupted.  But I have no time to think about it immediately.
> 
> crlf=safe [i.e. munging CRLFs only if there are no bare LFs] sounds 
> appealing to me as well because it looks like munging that is always 
> reversible.

There is a bigger problem here, though: As of now, you can add a (loose) object from a big file pretty easily even on a small machine, because you do not need the whole buffer, but you stream it to hash-object. IIRC Junio wrote a patch to allow this with "git-add", using fast-import, but that patch probably hasn't been applied.

Ciao, Dscho