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

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

The *ONLY* case where we may not be able to do things automatically is 
actually a much more subtle one: "git cat-file". If we just get a SHA1, we 
don't know what the path to look it up was like, and thus we can never 
know whether it's a binary or a text object. With "-p" we can trivially 
guess, of course, but "git cat-file blob" simply must not do that!

git-cat-file, and its counter part git-hash-object, are fairly low level 
plumbing.  Anyone using them should be aware of the issue and apply the 
needed conversion.  And actually, since we're going to have the 
conversion routines in the core, we'd only need to add a --crlf argument 
to both of them to optionally perform the conversion since the user of 
those commands is more likely to know if the conversion is needed.


Nicolas