From: Hnerik Grubbström <grubba@grubba.org>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 09:26:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] autocrlf: Make it work also for un-normalized repositories
Message-ID: <loom.20100512T112040-607@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100511223757.GB16974@pvv.org>

Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag <at> pvv.org> writes:

> Previously, autocrlf would only work well for normalized
> repositories. Any text files that contained CRLF in the repository
> would cause problems, and would be modified when handled with
> core.autocrlf set.
> 
> The following sequence should now always be a NOP even with autocrlf
> set (assuming a clean working directory):
> 
> git checkout <something>
> touch *
> git add -A .    (will add nothing)
> git commit      (nothing to commit)

Please note that the above problem is solved for the general case with the
"[PATCH v3 0/5] Patches to avoid reporting conversion changes." patch set.

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/grubba