From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 09:32:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/1] t3920: support CR-eating grep
Message-ID: <xmqqwn76p55v.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <569714f6-a913-5f7f-855a-b303adbde3ee@web.de>

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

> Depends on the meaning of "fixed".  If it stops removing CRs then this
> line is unaffected -- .crlf-orig-$branch.txt contains no CRs.

OK, that "fix" was what I was worried about and if there is no
problem with the input we use, that is good ;-)

> If it
> starts adding CRs then we'd have a problem with all grep invocations,
> which was addressed by 4d715ac05c (Windows: a test_cmp that is agnostic
> to random LF <> CRLF conversions, 2013-10-26).

Yeah, but I thought that the unspoken motivation behind recent
changes are so that we do not have to rely on "the differences
between CRLF and LF do not matter" version of test_cmp?

Thanks.