From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add warning about known issues to documentation of cvsimport Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:36:16 +0200 Message-ID: <49D1ABD0.8070707@pelagic.nl> References: <20090323195304.GC26678@macbook.lan> <49C7F233.9050205@pelagic.nl> <20090330221729.GB68118@macbook.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Heiko Voigt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 31 07:37:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LoWfX-0006gn-AT for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:37:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753324AbZCaFgT (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:36:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751921AbZCaFgT (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:36:19 -0400 Received: from hupie.xs4all.nl ([82.95.241.251]:38118 "EHLO Lighthouse.internal.Hupie.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751713AbZCaFgS (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:36:18 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.51] (unknown [192.168.0.51]) by Lighthouse.internal.Hupie.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B5F58BD88; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:36:16 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) In-Reply-To: <20090330221729.GB68118@macbook.lan> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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