On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 07:36:16AM +0200, Ferry Huberts (Pelagic) wrote: > Heiko Voigt wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:33:55PM +0100, Ferry Huberts (Pelagic) wrote: > >> maybe you can also add remarks about autocrlf and safecrlf? > >> both need to be off > > > > From my experience thats not necessarily true. You can use > > autocrlf=input to repair broken revisions were crlf's have been > > mistakenly committed into the repository. And if I remember correctly > > safecrlf helps if you want to make sure that no information gets lost. > > > > So when importing from a nice correct cvs repository you would expect > > safecrlf to not stop your import. And I suspect there are actually cvs > > users that were very careful with their lineendings who would use it. > > > > cheers Heiko > If you look at this thread: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/110152/focus=110358 > you'll see why I said it. I did some testing to prove my statement. Well, from that thread I see my statement supported. It is not true that they *need* to be off. Maybe a statement that certain crlf settings are exclusive would be good, but I agree that should go into the config documentation. The main point I see here is that the User may not be aware that such a conversion is applied so something like this could help. cheers Heiko diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index e1fd047..d4e7fd4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ probably want to make a bare clone of the imported repository and use the clone as the shared repository. See linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7]. +Note: All revisions are imported using the index so settings of +core.autocrlf and core.safecrlf are applied. This way you can change or +safety check the import. If you do not want this make sure these options +are both set to false. + OPTIONS ------- -- 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
