Re: Git on Windows, CRLF issues

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:11:49AM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:

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.

Sure, but that is quite slow on a larger tree, since it has to do a
full checkout for each commit. The idea of the specialized filter was to
avoid that. But if your project was small enough to do it that way, that
certainly works.

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.

Did you remove refs/original/ ?

-Peff