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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] submodule add + autocrlf + safecrlf
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:49:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vipelx49g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1340202515.git.brad.king@kitware.com> (Brad King's message of "Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:43:31 -0400")

Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> writes:

> When 'git submodule add' uses 'git config' to create a
> '.gitmodules' file it gets LF newlines that the subsequent
> 'git add --force .gitmodules' rejects if autocrlf and
> safecrlf are both enabled.  This series adds a test and
> proposes a fix that simply uses '-c core.safecrlf=false'
> to disable safecrlf when adding '.gitmodules'.
>
> I'm not excited by allowing a LF file in work tree that
> has clearly been configured to prefer CRLF, but avoiding
> that for .gitmodules is probably a separate issue.

I have a suspicion that "git config" should be taught about this
kind of thing instead.

Shoudn't your .git/config file that is outside the revision control
also end with CRLF if your platform and project prefer CRLF over LF?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-20 17:49 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
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 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-06-20 18:09   ` [PATCH 0/2] submodule add + autocrlf + safecrlf Brad King
2012-06-20 19:24     ` Junio C Hamano

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