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

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Mark Levedahl wrote:

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Perhaps I'm too paranoid, but I've been burnt way too many times by 
text/binary mode stuff to let this part be trivialized. Maybe it only 
gets enabled by core.ImReallyParanoid, but I want that option.

Be aware that what you proposed costs many CPU cycles. I am totally 
opposed to enabling that option by default on all platforms. I am okay 
with .gitattributes (but I would call it .gitfiletypes), but I am _not_ 
okay with git being _too much_ fscked up by Windows. Microsoft has done 
enough harm already.

Indeed; this type of checking should only occur if there is a filter
applied to a file.  Most files in most projects would hopefully
just be considered to be byte streams to Git, like they are today,
and thus not incur any additional overhead, beyond matching their
type to determine they are in fact just a byte stream.

The type could be cached in the index; or at least a single bit
which says "I'm just a byte stream, thanks" so that the matching
only needs to occur during an initial read-tree.

-- 
Shawn.