On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 05:54:37PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Yeah, that is probably what would happen. I have to admit that it's such > > an obscure case that I'm not sure I really care. It's unlikely in > > practice, and if somebody did report such a case, I think my first > > response would be "well, why did you have a broken entry stuck in your > > file?". > > I think we know the likely answer. "I once used Windows to edit the > file manually". > > After which the file looks broken, so the user may have re-added via > the credential API (with LF line ending) a new entry for the host > and have been happily using the result. I wrote something less charitable towards the user at first, and then toned it down. But I think I toned it down too much. Maybe my response would be "garbage in, garbage out; it was lucky that it worked before". -Peff
