Re: noob user, want checkins to all be forced to LF terminated lines

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On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:45:36PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> >[1] But upon restore, the working copy cache will be wrong
> 
> Why? Is it someplace else?

It is inside .git directory and will be caught by full recursive
backup. Unfortunately, it contains i-node numbers, which aren't
preserved through backup and restore.

The wrong i-node numbers would then confuse git (false positives
in modification detection). Fortunately, this data can be rebuilt
with single command (see below).
 
> >and needs to be rebuilt (git update-index --refresh).

-Ilari
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