Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

Then for each file type, we implement a set of interfaces (perhaps as
simple as a series of executables named git-<type>-<operation>) which
if present, transforms the file from its live format to the canonical
format which is actually checked in and back again.  Besides using
this for the DOS CR/LF problem, it also allows for an efficient
storage of things like OpenOffice files which are a zipped set of .xml
files.  By decompressing them before pushing them into the SCM, it
means that if the user makes a tiny spelling correction in their
OpenOffice file, the delta stored in the git repository can be much
more efficiently stored (since the diff of the .xml tree will be
small, where as the diff of the entire compressed file is likely going
to be close to the entire size of the .odt file).

Another nice thing to provide for each file type would be a
pretty-printer for the diffs, so it becomes easier to see the delta
between two versions of an OpenOffice file in a textual window.

So, is this idea sane or completely insane?  Hopefully it passes
Linus's it-solves-multiple-problems-at-once test, at least.  :-)

there have been other things discussed that could use the 'do this on checkout' 
hooks, specificly on the issue of useing git to manage /etc the need to 
save/restore permissions requires a hook on checkout that doesn't exist yet. 
this sounds like it would solve that problem as well.

David Lang