From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:54:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] credentials: make line reading Windows compatible
Message-ID: <xmqqsgb1ier6.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200929004448.GD898702@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Yeah, that is probably what would happen. I have to admit that it's such
> an obscure case that I'm not sure I really care. It's unlikely in
> practice, and if somebody did report such a case, I think my first
> response would be "well, why did you have a broken entry stuck in your
> file?".

I think we know the likely answer.  "I once used Windows to edit the
file manually".

After which the file looks broken, so the user may have re-added via
the credential API (with LF line ending) a new entry for the host
and have been happily using the result.