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From: Aleksandr Dubinsky <adubinsky@almson.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Suggested behavior when pulling .gitattributes
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 02:21:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEbpm93Pr8sU9mBx8V5VMmi5aXos-KBQpmEN7NPrdR07rYV5EQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I ran into a problem with line endings that .gitattributes is supposed
to fix. However, I ran into a headache with this not giving the
desired result. This headache could have easily been avoided if:

When pulling .gitattributes, git should parse the file and anything
new in it should be acted upon. Specifically, if a file already exists
with modified endings and .gitattributes now says it should be treated
as binary, then please automatically re-checkout the file with the
correct, un-modified line endings.

Possibly this suggestion also applies to pushing/committing but that
wasn't the problem I ran into just now.

                 reply	other threads:[~2012-09-01 23:23 UTC|newest]

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