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

Hi,

[I agree on the .gitignore approach; see my other mail in this thread]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Btw, how would I implement this? If I really were energetic enough to 
implement it, I would do:

 (a) Add a flag to "git-ls-files" logic to add "type information" in 
     front.

     Not only do you want this *anyway* for other reasons, but for
     binary/text, the thing you actually care most about is "git add", and 
     it already basically just does "take this file pattern, feed it 
     through git-ls-files, and add those files". So you'd get it basically 
     for free.

     It is also fairly easy to add at this stage, because you can simply 
     look for all the places that work with "info/exclude" and 
     ".gitignore", and you know that "Ahh, I need to teach these exact 
     places to understand about attributes". So you'd add an 
     "add_attributes_from_file()" function etc etc.

     Quite straightforward. In fact, you might be able to use the 
     gitignore parsing *as*is*, and just teach it about more flags that 
     just "ignore": both in "struct dir_entry" and in "struct exclude".

 (b) Teach the git-update-index logic about hashing text blobs.

 (c) Profit!

Not so fast.

In order for this to be _useful_, you also have to have a way to _extract_ 
the text blobs. Not only for read-tree, but _also_ for diff. It makes no 
sense at all to have this transformation one-way. For diff, you _might_ 
want to have a diff beautifier (for example the .odt thing), but read-tree 
is _really_ important.

Ciao,
Dscho