Re: [PATCH] Respect crlf attribute even if core.autocrlf has not been set

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 05:07:49PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:

FWIW, this problem would apply to any system that incrementally
imports into git from another system using binary deltas.

Not necessary. It depends on how import is done. You should not apply
this binary deltas to your working tree, but to files in the repo. And
obviously those files that are imported should be stored as is without
any conversion. In the same way as if you clone some git repo, you do
not apply any commit conversion to any existing commit. This conversion
should be done for *new* commits that you create locally.

So, the problem with git-svn is mostly due to how the import is done. Of
course, the other part of that problem is that conversion setting in Git
and SVN for text files specified very differently.

Dmitry