Re: [boost] [git] Line endings in bootstrap.bat on Windows

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Line endings in bootstrap.bat on Windows
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-29 04:32:51

On 29 November 2013 04:18, Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 28 Nov 2013 at 10:14, Beman Dawes wrote:
>
>> > We can get this right by setting the gitattributes files to something
>> > appropriate and normalizing the repos (most repos are actually fine
>> > already). But there will be issues with checking out old versions.
>> > There are a few approaches to fixing this, but Beman isn't keen on
>> > delaying conversion further. Most people don't use old versions so it
>> > won't be a big problem, and if they wish to they can use the read only
>> > subversion repo, or normalise an older version themselves.
>> >
>>
>> +1
>
> In which case, we merge https://github.com/ryppl/Boost2Git/pull/42
> and run one last conversion. All commits made to Boost since the SVN
> pre-commit hooks were added will be converted losslessly (i.e. last
> few years worth of commits). All commits preceding this where the
> EOLs do not match the file extension in the .gitattributes will be
> forced to the EOL specified in .gitattributes. For those test files
> in sandbox where deliberate mismatched EOLs are part of a test suite,
> those files will be irretrievably forced to correct EOL and therefore
> the unit tests will fail. Other similar loss of data may occur in
> files committed a long time ago.

When I said, "There are a few approaches to fixing this, but Beman
isn't keen on delaying conversion further." I was including this
approach.