Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Marius Storm-Olsen, Tue, Jul 24, 2007 21:36:06 +0200:
> IMO Windows user expect files to be DOS style, since all other files
> are.  Yes, most newer tools 'handle' Unix style files, but creating new
> ones will mostly be DOS style. Some will actually wreak havoc on your
> files, and start adding DOS line endings in the middle of your Unix line
> ending file. I've seen it happen. So, dealing with Unix style text files
> on Windows can be a problem for some people.

I have to stay with Windows, but I'd absolute hate having their stupid
line-ending by default. As will my project supervisor, and he gets
changes from something like 300 developers. You will definitely get
their votes against changing the default

> > Git is really slowed down tremendously just by the fact that it runs on 
> > Windows.  You should not add to that.
> 
> The auto crlf conversion is not the slow down here, and the time spent
> there is negligible. I use autocrlf on all my repos on Windows, and
> don't notice it. Filestat'ing on the other hand.. :-)

Of course you wont notice it: you're already on Windows.

> > IMHO in most cases -- even on Windows -- you do not want to set autocrlf 
> > at all.  Because you do not need to store the file different from the 
> > version you have in the working tree.
> 
> Not true. I believe, especially at the moment, most Git users on Windows
> are mostly developing code in a cross-platform manner, and therefore
> care about this problem.

Yes. They solve it by working fulltime in \n-lineending. Avoiding that
stupid Visual Studio and Notepad helps too.

> > The only situation where I think it makes sense, is when you have both 
> > Windows and Unix developers, _and_ your Windows tools sometimes produce 
> > CR/LF stupidly.  But then I'd set it to "input".
> 
> That's ok _now_, because most of the Git user group is experienced
> developer that understand the problem. I'm trying to see past that
> state, and prepare Git for more 'common' usage on Windows. They'd expect
> text files on Windows to be handled correctly, without any fuzz.

Just make the windows installer to setup templates for CR/LF depending
on checkbox "[ ] I am Windows idiot, standard issue".

> No tweaking of config options to make it work on Windows. No problems
> with sharing repositories with Unix developers. Just work. That's not
> the current state. But it could be.

It is for me. It will not be that with your suggested default.

> Ok, I come from the Perforce world, so here how it works there:
> 1) Files are stored with Unix line endings in the repository.
> 2) Conversion is done on Windows (and older Macs) upon checkout, if the
> file is a text file.
> 3) It has binary file detection when you add it to the depot, so if you
> and to add a DOS line ending file to the repo, you have to mark it as a
> binary file manually

You always setup the lineending conversion in perforce. For each and
every client. There is no default. I just don't see what to learn from
them (if there ever was something to learn from).

> ... And Git would probably be adapted on
> Windows more quickly, which this is all about. :-) IMHO.

It is hardly worth it. Git already has to put up with ugly workarounds
just because of the stupidities coming from that windows. It has had
seldom any benefit from supporting this !@#$ing awkward platform.