Re: [boost] [conversion] Isolating the phantom file changes problem

Subject: Re: [boost] [conversion] Isolating the phantom file changes problem
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-29 04:26:29

On 29 November 2013 04:04, Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 27 Nov 2013 at 9:25, Beman Dawes wrote:
>
>> After doing a lot of reading of git docs and about how others dealt with
>> similar problems, that was also my conclusion. I'm wondering why others
>> haven't suggested renormalization?
>
> This was discussed and rejected due to loss of data. Here is the
> patch implementing renormalisation:
> https://github.com/ryppl/Boost2Git/pull/42.

When we talk about renormalisation, we're talking about the procedure
described in the gitattributes man page.