Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow writing loose objects that are corrupted in a pack file

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

And dobody else saw it than this one person, and it was a total mystery to 
everybody until we realized that he used this one feature that nobody else 
was using. So as you're on OS X, I assume you don't have CRLF conversion, 
but maybe you use some other feature that we support but nobody really 
actually uses. Like keyword expansion or something?

Oh - that would also explain why you got all those entries in "git status" 
that went away when you did a "git reset --hard": if you had some keyword 
expansion (or CRLF) enabled in the original users "~/.gitconfig", that 
checkout would have had expansion/CRLF/whatever conversion, but then when 
you tarred/untarred it on another setup, the expansion would be seen as a 
difference because it wasn't enabled.

Btw, if you untar it again, and just do a "git diff", that should show any 
such effects. Rather than showing just that something changed, it should 
show _how_ it changed.

		Linus