Re: Line ending normalization doesn't work as expected

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 6, 2017, 00:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa8156rok.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171005214248.GA31593@tor.lan>

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:

> Before we put this into stone:
> Does it make sense to say "renormalize" instead of "rehash" ?
> (That term does exist already for merge.
>  And rehash is more a technical term,  rather then a user-point-of-view explanation)

I do not mind "renormalize" at all.

As to the toy patch, I think it needs to (at least by default) turn off the add_new_files codepath, and be allowed to work without any pathspec (in which case all tracked paths should be renormalized).

And we really shouldn't do the "rm && add", which would not work well on platforms where filesystem without executing-bit support is prevalent. This new feature is primarily needed on platforms where CRLF line endings are used, and unfortunately these two sets of platforms overlap quite a bit X-<.