On 24. juni 2010, at 22.21, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> If .gitattributes is different on the different sides, or if you >> enable autocrlf, the current repo contents may change after >> git-to-worktree and worktree-to-git again. > > IOW, g2w-then-w2g may not be an identity function. > > If we were to encourage use of this codepath to wider audiences, we may > need to have a document for people who write smudge/clean filters. In > order for the result to be stable, applying g2w-then-w2g once again on top > of the result of running g2w-then-w2g on anything should be no-op, no? Hm. Isn't that already a requirement? If a clean filter doesn't clean to something normalized, simply touching a file could result in spurious differences (much like pre-safe-autocrlf autocrlf). I could well be missing something here, though. -- Eyvind -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html