Re: Git on Windows, CRLF issues

Avery Pennarun:

Do you think git would benefit from having a generalized version of
this script?

Definitely. Also, something that would work with a) several branches
(i.e traverse all the branches; keeping the points at which they
diverge), and b) submodules (i.e apply the same changes to the
submodules and updating the submodule index accordingly).

I ended up doing CRLF conversion for most of the repositories I had
converted. Fortunately, most of them had a single branch, so after
having created a small script that did CRLF->LF for the text files, I
could do a

  git filter-branch --tree-filter 'c:/temp/crlf2lf.sh' \
                    --tag-name-filter 'cat' HEAD

on each repository and get everything converted during my lunch break.


What I couldn't figure out is why, after converting everything,
removing all references to the repositories I cloned from, and removing
references to the old objects in the reflogs, why

 git fsck --unreachable

did not report any unreachable objects? I would have guessed the entire
old history and its objects would now be invalidated and could be
killed off.

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