Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.)
>
> I actually think what is being requested is the opposite, i.e. "the
> object registered in the index have wrong line endings, and the
> safe-crlf is getting in the way to prevent me from correcting by
> hashing the working tree contents again to register contents with
> corrected line endings, even with 'git add .'".
>
> So I would understand if your suggestion were for
>
> git checkin --renormalize .
>
> but not "git checkout". And it probably is more familiar to lay
> people if we spelled that as "git add --renormalize ." ;-)
Good catch. You understood correctly --- "git add --renormalize" is
the feature that I think is being hinted at here.
Thanks,
Jonathan
