Hi Robert, Robert Dailey wrote: > You guys are obviously worlds ahead of me on the internals of things, > but from my perspective I like to avoid the "plumbing" commands as > much as I can. I suspect what we are dancing around is the need for some command like git checkout --renormalize . which would shorten the sequence to git checkout --renormalize . git status; # Show files that will be normalized git commit; # Commit the result What do you think? Would you be interested in writing a patch for it? ("No" is as always an acceptable answer.) Thanks, Jonathan