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From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
To: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] submodule: Tolerate auto/safecrlf when adding .gitmodules
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:21:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE21493.8000206@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE21133.2030001@kitware.com>

Am 20.06.2012 20:06, schrieb Brad King:
> On 06/20/2012 01:52 PM, Jens Lehmann wrote:
>> Am 20.06.2012 16:43, schrieb Brad King:
>>> Temporarily disable 'core.safecrlf' to add '.gitmodules' so that
>>> 'git add' does not reject the LF newlines we write to the file
>>> even if both 'core.autocrlf' and 'core.safecrlf' are enabled.
>>> This fixes known breakage tested in t7400-submodule-basic.
>>
>> Hmm, I have no objections against the intention of the patch. But
>> as I understand it this message will reoccur when the user e.g.
>> edits the .gitmodules file later with any editor who just writes
>> lfs and adds it.
>>
>> I don't know terribly much about crlf support but maybe flagging
>> the .gitmodules file in .gitattributes would be a better solution
>> here? Opinions?
> 
> Once a user edits the file with an outside tool it is his/her
> responsibility to add .gitattributes for the file.  In the reported
> case Git is creating the file and already knows the crlf mode when
> creating it.
> 
> I think Junio's proposal to teach "git config" to respect crlf
> configuration is a more general solution.

Yep.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-20 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-20 14:43 [PATCH 0/2] submodule add + autocrlf + safecrlf Brad King
2012-06-20 14:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] submodule: Demonstrate failure to add with auto/safecrlf Brad King
2012-06-20 14:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] submodule: Tolerate auto/safecrlf when adding .gitmodules Brad King
2012-06-20 17:52   ` Jens Lehmann
2012-06-20 18:06     ` Brad King
2012-06-20 18:21       ` Jens Lehmann [this message]
2012-06-20 19:11       ` Jeff King
2012-06-20 19:53         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-21 19:06         ` Jens Lehmann
2012-06-20 17:49 ` [PATCH 0/2] submodule add + autocrlf + safecrlf Junio C Hamano
2012-06-20 18:09   ` Brad King
2012-06-20 19:24     ` Junio C Hamano

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