Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Line endings in bootstrap.bat on Windows
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-27 12:25:27
AMDG
On 11/27/2013 08:03 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
> What do you consider to be "correct" handling?
>
> If you can figure out what's really desired, we can easily implement it.
> Or, maybe Niall's patch already implements what you want. So far,
> though, there have been so many emphatic demands from the community that
> no history be "lost," that we have been extremely reluctant to process
> the file contents as part of the conversion.
>
That is exactly the problem. You /are/ losing part of
the history.
There are really two options:
a) Correctly preserve svn:eol-style, however git represents it,
so that the files produced by a git checkout are always binary
identical to those produced by svn checkout.
b) Change the line endings to match whatever the
rules are in the git repository.
I would strongly favor option (a), unless git is
too broken to handle it.
In Christ,
Steven Watanabe