From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Patches to avoid reporting conversion changes. Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:40:20 -0700 Message-ID: <7vfx16oxmz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Henrik_Grubbstr=C3=B6m_=28Grubba=29?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 02 06:40:35 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJfkk-0002Qc-RD for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:40:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752008Ab0FBEk2 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 00:40:28 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:35563 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751795Ab0FBEk1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 00:40:27 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05BE8B6F14; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 00:40:27 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=fhWYnnk70KXNgju1Vxz6uWGso Vc=; b=KV7QKCb0PW2TYCKU4gkDgm2FxcAdxhnwI9dUut59Tj6mTDHfLqq91ytVU /xECH3fYm9dLzQT93MgLgNiwu+LOepwZ5ezTNQYQbMM3ecaTwvfMakOA5NS+xseZ h/Xl+1NCW8xH+cQZPBLesPDVZ3eqjgp5Wkfcur2+jOJOaX31LI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=b9/qIHz44h4H3WP3nFr Zq5YLgI5uAFwTtSQarielu3y/IzC3b06BUCRsKTc5tCC3LCjoUaJyJxRNStMXrwp +/AqEEdMve2n+6Cx2rXRxzwCMwRzkMZTHTQSMfVuOCtYNNmk28kHUQqR7NuYX3sF hJ3W8CDCxDvr+81KfLFaQfxs= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D72E0B6F12; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 00:40:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [69.181.135.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3BEC2B6F0C; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 00:40:22 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: F5DF9950-6E00-11DF-8075-6730EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Henrik Grubbstr=C3=B6m (Grubba)" writes: > This is useful for repositorys not containing fully normalized files > (eg containing CRLF's or expanded $Id$ strings), where a later attrib= ute > change implies a conversion mode change. Without this set of patches > the user would need to recommit semantically unchanged files to get > a clean index. A more fundamental (or perhaps "silly") question is if that "user would need to" is necessarily a bad thing. If the user wants to cleanse such abnormality in the recorded blobs, shouldn't there be a conscious act, iow, a commit that records that "I am fixing that mistake, and from now on, the recorded data are normalized"? Perhaps I am missing something very trivial that you have already explained to the list but I forgot amid my moving and other confusion, = and if that is the case I apologize in advance ;-).