Re: core.autocrlf considered half-assed

Hi,

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 12:23:33AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

Just try to "git reset --hard" or "git stash" when there are files 
with DOS line endings and when core.autocrlf is not false.

I did, and I have not noticed any problem with that.

git init
git config core.autocrlf true
echo foo^ | tr ^ '\r' > foo
git add foo
git commit -m 'add foo'

Unfortunately, this is not the common case. The common case is that 
somebody committed _without_ autocrlf (implicitly =false), and you clone 
from there.

Easiest example:

$ git clone -n git://repo.or.cz/git.git html-docs
$ cd html-docs/
$ git config core.autocrlf true
$ git checkout -t origin/html
$ git status

... and despair.

Hth,
Dscho