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

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Daniel James wrote:

On 29 November 2013 04:04, Niall Douglas wrote:

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On 27 Nov 2013 at 9:25, Beman Dawes wrote:

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