Hi,

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

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> On Jan 18, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> >  * crlf (Steffen Prohaska and Dmitry Potapov)
> 
> I am working on an alternative to the patch I sent last week. I hope I 
> can present the two approaches soon.
> 
> The first approach is a lazy check in crlf_to_git() that warns about an 
> irreversible conversion; or dies if safecrlf=true.  This is relatively 
> simple code but at least for git-add a workaround is needed to suppress 
> printing a warning twice.  The runtime overhead is negligible.
> 
> The second approach adds a new machinery is_worktree_crlfsafe()
> that could be run independently of the crlf_to_git() conversion.

From the sound of it, I like the first approach much better.

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> I do not expect that this topic will be ready for 1.5.4.

What with our ongoing discussion when to go out of preview phase for 
msysGit, I think this makes sense.

Ciao,
Dscho

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