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

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Not so fast.  What's your plan for st_size?

Umm. There's two (very distinct) uses for st_size.

The one that we actually use to validate the current index obviously must 
match the "OS returned value". It contains all the CR/LF stuff.

The one where we actually read the file and run SHA1 on the result must 
obviously be the post-conversion one.

But it shouldn't be a problem. We'll always know which one matters: the 
index case is always about pure stat information (and has no meaning 
outside of that, really - after all, it's no different from st_mode etc, 
and we actually keep it in a special binary format that is endian-safe!) 
and the "real object" case is always about the *data* we use to compare 
with.

I don't think we ever mix the two anyway.

		Linus