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Re: [msysgit? bug] crlf double-conversion on win32

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LBLaurent Boulard <laurent.boulard@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 14, 2009, 15:59 UTC
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 16:03, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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>> See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/122823/focus=122862
>>
>> In which Junio suggests:
>> $ rm .git/index
>> $ git reset --hard
>>
>> in order to "restore sanity to your work tree"
>
> Of course this is insane as a user interface.  It is not even plumbing.
>
> So I started some time ago to code a "git checkout --fix-crlf", but I
> am not really happy with the user interface.  I think that Git should
> realize itself that something went wrong with the line endings.  If I say
> "git reset --hard", it is just a bug in Git when it insists afterwards
> that the files are modified.

I have to work on win32 at work and depending of projects, I have to play with autocrlf/crlf config. So I cannot do a git clone because it will inherit the global crlf configuration which is not want I want. My flow is often:

$ git init ... $ git config core.autocrlf ... $ git remote add origin ... $ git fetch origin ...

I stuffed those four lines behind a few git alias but I think having a config option for git init and git clone to set core.autocrlf in repository would be a (small) improvement, isn't it ?

Laurent.
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  1. Yann DirsonOct 13, 2009
  2. Eric RaibleOct 13, 2009
  3. Johannes SchindelinOct 14, 2009
  4. Laurent BoulardOct 14, 2009
  5. Eric RaibleOct 14, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 14, 2009
  7. Eric RaibleOct 14, 2009

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