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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2010, #04; Wed, 23)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:42:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2344C0.2010402@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100624111757.GB3453@pvv.org>

Am 6/24/2010 13:17, schrieb Finn Arne Gangstad:
> Assume you start out with a repo that has a lot of text files with
> CRLF checked in (A).
> 
>   C----
>  /     \
> A---B---D
> 
> B: Add "* text=auto" to .gitattributes and normalize all files to LF
> only in repo
> 
> D: try to merge C
> 
> Without this patch you will get a ridiculous number of lf/crlf
> conflicts when trying to merge C into D, since the repository contents
> for C are "wrong" wrt the new .gitattributes file.

What should happen when you have C checked out (i.e., you do not yet have
the updated .gitattributes in your worktree nor index) and merge B?
Currently, you get the identical conflicts, but I suspect that the patch
does not help in this situation. IOW, it breaks the merge symmetry.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-24 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-23 22:09 What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2010, #04; Wed, 23) Junio C Hamano
     [not found] ` <7veifxe63j.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
2010-06-23 22:54   ` [PATCH] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" messages in __git_ps1 Shawn O. Pearce
2010-06-23 23:21 ` What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2010, #04; Wed, 23) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-24  0:44 ` Nazri Ramliy
2010-06-24  3:46 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-24 11:17 ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2010-06-24 11:42   ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2010-06-24 11:58     ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2010-06-24 12:23     ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-06-24 20:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-24 20:51     ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-06-24 22:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-25  8:43         ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2010-06-25 19:43         ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-06-25 21:17           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-25  6:02     ` Johannes Sixt
2010-06-25  7:46     ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2010-06-24 14:48 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-06-24 15:33   ` git log --objects Holger Hellmuth
2010-06-25 10:06     ` Santi Béjar
2010-06-24 15:41   ` What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2010, #04; Wed, 23) Clément Poulain
2010-06-25  2:27 ` Christian Couder
2010-06-25 10:30 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-06-25 13:43 ` Michael J Gruber

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