Hi Jeff and Drew. Excellent. I now removed the repository from the server, removed it from my gitolite.conf, added it to gitolite.conf, re-initialized and it works. git diff shows what I wanted. Thank you *very* much for making my dream come true. :) -And thank you all for all the hard work you're doing. -Git is how all other open-source projects should be: Well-written and well-defined (oh - and fast!). :) Love Jens On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:23:44 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 08:17:20PM +0200, Jens Bauer wrote: > >> In my home directory, I have a .gitconfig file, here's the >> interesting part: >> [core] >> editor = nano >> excludesfile = /Users/jens/.gitexcludes >> attributesfile = /Users/jens/.gitattributes >> >> [filter "cr"] >> clean = tr '\\r' '\\n' >> smudge = tr '\\n' '\\r' >> >> >> In my home directory I added .gitattributes: >> *.osm filter=cr > > Looks right. > >> Now, when I clone the project, make a change and then issue this command... >> $ git diff mypcb.osm >> >> ...I get a strange diff. On line 3, one of the files shows a lot of >> control-m (<cr>) lines. >> After that, I see <lf> lines, all prefixed with a '+', as if they >> were added. >> >> I think I might be nearly there, just missing some obvious detail >> somewhere. > > Yes, that's expected. The point of the "clean" filter is to convert > your working tree file into a canonical (lf-only) representation inside > the repository. But you've already made commits with the cr form in the > repository. So you can choose one of: > > 1. Make a new commit with these settings, which will have the > canonical format. Accept that the old history will be funny, but > you will be OK from here on out. > > 2. Rewrite the old history to pretend that it was always LF. This > gives you a nice clean history, but if you are collaborating with > other people, they will need to rebase their work on the new > history. See "git help filter-branch" for details. > > -Peff -- 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