[phobos] [dmd-internals] svn-->git migration

[Jens Mueller]

Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 11:49 +0100, Jens Mueller wrote:
> > Walter Bright wrote:
> > > Jason Evans wrote:
> > > >
> > > >The above example has several steps in it that can be skipped for
> > > >such a simple change, but for more involved changes, this work
> > > >flow is the foundation.  git is a complex tool, but the underlying
> > > >concepts are coherent, consistent, and straightforward.  Learn
> > > >those concepts well and you will be largely able to infer what git
> > > >is capable of.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > 
> > > This is good stuff, thanks!
> > > 
> > > How do we set things so that line endings are automatically
> > > normalized to LF?
> > 
> > http://help.github.com/dealing-with-lineendings/
> > see
> > "I just cloned and git says files have changed!"
> > 
> > Does this help?
> 
> So it seems we should all enable the core.autocrlf option and
> re-checkout our repos then?

I'll guess not. Because
core.autocrlf = true means
"Use this setting if you want to have CRLF line endings in your working
directory even though the repository does not have normalized line endings."
(see man git-config)

See here for further explanation:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3206843/how-line-ending-conversions-work-with-git-core-autocrlf-between-different-operati

The part "Moving forward" on github seems rather strange to me.

Jens