Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 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". OK, so what's the final verdict from us? This is good enough to move forward as-is?
