On 2017-10-18 16:45, Norman Dunbar wrote:
On 18/10/17 15:15, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
Given the normalization done during conversion, that should not be a
problem (unless a new file extension is introduced that isn't
considered a text file by the configuration of the conversion).
The thing I mentioned with autocrlf is the old way of doing things, up
to Git 1.6 I think. From then on, .gitattributes is the way to go.
Old way, but still the way if a repository has no .gitattributes (like
for example the Firebird core repository).
However, if a new file type appears, Git will determine whether it is
a text file by checking to see if it fails the tests for binary files.
Git's text file detection is pretty good, but I'm specifically talking
about the line-ending normalization that I'm doing during the repository
conversion process. I have decided to use a cautious approach, which
means I'll only do line-ending normalization on files that are
positively text files (based on a large list 'borrowed' from Subversion,
with some project specific alterations, see
https://www.lawinegevaar.nl/firebird/cvs_migration.html for details).
All other files will be left untouched on the off chance they are
binary, as the conversion process uses git fast-import to load the data,
git will not apply its own line-ending normalization at that time (in
essence, git fast-import handles everything as if it is binary).
So if a new file extension for a text file would be introduced between
now and the final conversion, then I would specifically need to take
that into account, or we'll get a white space correction on the first
commit that touches that file after migration.
But odds are probably negligible that a new (and unknown) file extension
will be introduced to the project before migration.
Mark
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