Re: Schrödinger's diff

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Yes, that works fine, but:
>
>   1. It blows away anything unrelated you might have staged.
>
>   2. You have to know to do it (and you get very confusing results if
>      you don't), which makes it very unfriendly for newbies.
>
>   3. You have to know to do it, and it isn't documented. :)
>
> (3) at least is not too hard to address. And perhaps (2) is not a big
> enough issue to care about. This is not a problem we have seen on the
> list a lot. I suspect it is because most CRLF users are on Windows, and
> therefore have it setup before the tree is checked out, and there are
> simply not all that many clean/smudge users.

A much more important reason is that it is a one-time event.  You notice
that you screwed up the configuration to use your peculiar work tree
representation, and you fix it once and for all.  Because not only it is a
one-time event but because it is a big-deal event, I do not think it is
something people even would want to think about doing it while having
local changes, so I suspect #1 is also a non-issue.



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