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

Subject: Re: [boost] [conversion] Isolating the phantom file changes problem
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-29 08:14:55

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Daniel James <daniel_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> 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.
>

+1

There is also a nice discussion at
https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings#re-normalizing-a-repository

I've forked the boost super repo and am testing the procedure now.

--Beman