Re: [PATCH] Respect crlf attribute even if core.autocrlf has not been set

["Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>]

On 7/30/08, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
> > And so here's the problem: svn hands you a file.  It may or may not
> > have CRLFs in it, and the line endings may actually be a random mix of
> > LF and CRLF, as I am actually experiencing at the moment in a
> > particular repository at work.  If core.autocrlf is anything other
> > than "false", git will modify the file, and git-svn won't be apply the
> > diff on the next revision.
>
>  This sound like a specific problem with svn, not a general problem
>  of git's autocrlf concept.  I work with a git-only workflow and I
>  never see the problems you describe.

My apologies, I think I got this thread mixed up with a different
thread about the fact that git-svn doesn't work with autocrlf.

FWIW, this problem would apply to any system that incrementally
imports into git from another system using binary deltas.

Have fun,

Avery