From: "Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)" <ferry.huberts@pelagic.nl>
To: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add warning about known issues to documentation of cvsimport
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:36:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D1ABD0.8070707@pelagic.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090330221729.GB68118@macbook.lan>
Heiko Voigt wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:33:55PM +0100, Ferry Huberts (Pelagic) wrote:
>> maybe you can also add remarks about autocrlf and safecrlf?
>> both need to be off
>
> From my experience thats not necessarily true. You can use
> autocrlf=input to repair broken revisions were crlf's have been
> mistakenly committed into the repository. And if I remember correctly
> safecrlf helps if you want to make sure that no information gets lost.
>
> So when importing from a nice correct cvs repository you would expect
> safecrlf to not stop your import. And I suspect there are actually cvs
> users that were very careful with their lineendings who would use it.
>
> cheers Heiko
If you look at this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/110152/focus=110358
you'll see why I said it. I did some testing to prove my statement.
Ferry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-31 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-23 19:53 [PATCH] Add warning about known issues to documentation of cvsimport Heiko Voigt
2009-03-23 20:33 ` Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)
2009-03-30 22:17 ` Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 5:36 ` Ferry Huberts (Pelagic) [this message]
2009-03-31 16:22 ` Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 16:53 ` [PATCH] cvsimport: Add a note about crlf options to the documentation Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 17:10 ` [PATCH] Add warning about known issues to documentation of cvsimport Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)
2009-03-24 3:14 ` Jeff King
2009-03-30 22:36 ` Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 0:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-31 16:45 ` [PATCH] Cleanup warning about known issues in cvsimport documentation Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 19:49 ` Jeff King
2009-04-01 20:24 ` [PATCH v2] " Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 11:28 ` [PATCH] Add warning about known issues to documentation of cvsimport Jeff King
2009-03-31 19:40 ` Jeff King
2009-03-31 23:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-01 8:50 ` [PATCH] Documentation: use "spurious .sp" XSLT if DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP is set Chris Johnsen
2009-04-01 10:14 ` Jeff King
2009-04-02 5:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-01 10:34 ` Jeff King
2009-04-01 12:19 ` Chris Johnsen
2009-04-01 13:06 ` Jeff King
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