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

[Jens Mueller]

Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> 
> Jens Mueller wrote:
> >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.
> >
> 
> I tried various settings a few months back, and failed miserably.
> Nobody I asked could tell me what the various settings actually did,
> none of the online explanations made any sense (*). My takeaway was:
> 
> 1. do not attempt to use git on Windows
> 2. write tolf.d and fix all line endings to \n before submission to git
> 
> So far, that works.
> 
> 
> (*) First off, there were several settings. Nobody could tell me if
> git stored the files in its database with canonicalized line
> endings, what happened to the original files (were they modified by
> git?) and what happens when files were restored from git (line
> endings left as is, rewritten, what?), if only the diff programs
> affected, was the sha hash affected, etc.

Good questions.
Reading the section "Effects" on gitattributes
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html
I think some can be answered. Though I have to admit I never used git on
Windows.

Jens