From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:25:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 6/7] correct blame for files commited with CRLF
Message-ID: <xmqqio05vxo9.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <56FADCAB.1010201@web.de>

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:

> If we had made the CRLF -> LF conversion, yes. But we don't do that.
> crlf_to_git() returns without touching the line endings.

That sounds quite broken.  How would a user ever fix broken data in
the index then?  I know the commit that often appears in these
discussions claims to give us "safer CRLF" handling, but I have a
suspicion that perhaps we should rethink if that claim is really
true.  Isn't it giving us more problems than it is worth?