Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2010, #04; Wed, 23)

Finn Arne Gangstad [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 03:09:32PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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* eb/double-convert-before-merge (2010-06-16) 1 commit
 - ll-merge: Normalize files before merging

If running git-to-worktree and then worktree-to-git _fixes_ something, it
means that these are not roundtrip operations; there is something that is
fundamentally wrong.  The commit log message doesn't help explaining it,
either.

If .gitattributes is different on the different sides, or if you
enable autocrlf, the current repo contents may change after
git-to-worktree and worktree-to-git again.

IOW, g2w-then-w2g may not be an identity function.

If we were to encourage use of this codepath to wider audiences, we may
need to have a document for people who write smudge/clean filters.  In
order for the result to be stable, applying g2w-then-w2g once again on top
of the result of running g2w-then-w2g on anything should be no-op, no?