Re: Verbose Commit Ignore Line Fails via CRLF Line Endings

["Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 07:52:33PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2024-10-08 at 19:34:46, Spencer Fretwell wrote:
> > Thanks Brian,
> >
> > It appears sublime auto-normalizes endings to "whatever occurs most
> > frequently in the first 32kB". So, I guess it was witnessing the CRLF
> > from the verbose output and replacing all lines with CRLF. Thanks for
> > the reminder about --renormalize.
> >
> > Is there any chance for git to support a CRLF magic ignore line,
> > particularly considering the variation in standard line ending across
> > different platforms? I tried autocrlf=input as well and it sadly
> > doesn't normalize the commit message file itself. Either way (magic
> > ignore with CRLF or normalizing line endings in the commit message),
> > would be appreciated for mixed line ending workflows (especially
> > considering WSL)
>
> The answer is essentially that I don't know.  We typically make
> decisions on whether we'll accept features when we see the patch.  My
> guess is that, assuming someone (maybe you) sends a patch, it will
> probably be accepted, since I wouldn't expect it would be very difficult
> to do or have major impacts on the code.  It might, as with any patch,
> take a couple of rounds, though.
>
> I use Linux or rarely other Unix systems and always use LF endings, so I
> don't plan to send a patch since this doesn't affect me, but assuming
> the patch looked reasonable, I don't see myself having an objection to
> it.

Hej Spencer,

you are probably the first one reporting this, thanks for doing so.

I have the suspicion, that your repo has files commit with CRLF,
and that leads to a CRLF entering the diff, and that leads your
editor to produce CRLF in the commit-message.

In order to debug this a little bit, can you run a
git ls-files --eol | grep i/crlf
in your repo ?

In general, when working with cross-platform, or only with windows,
it is a good practice to use a .gitattributes file to specify the
line endings.
Do you have such a file in your repo, and is it commited ?