Re: [PATCH for-maint] apply: gitdiff_verify_name(): accept "/dev/null\r"

> On 09/23/14 21:56, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>>> What do you think about accepting only "/dev/null\n" and "/dev/null\r\n"?
>> 
>> I thought we agreed that what you are doing is not workable in the
>> first place, no?
>> 
>> I suspect one way to handle "In this project, the files that are
>> checked out must be with CRLF line endings no matter what the
>> platform is" might be to use the line ending attributes to force
>> that while keeping the in-repository data with LF line endings.  The
>> diff output (format-patch output is just one of them) comes from
>> comparing the in-repository representation, so you won't have \r\n
>> that will be stripped via MTA in it, "apply" and "am" will apply the
>> patch without having to worry about \r\n, _and_ the line ending
>> attributes would end the lines in your in-working-tree files with
>> CRLF that way.
>
> This would be a perfect solution if the git repository was not a mirror
> of a Subversion repository that contains all files with embedded CRLFs.