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

Hi Beman, On Wednesday, 27. November 2013 09:25:19 Beman Dawes wrote:

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Daniel James wrote:

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Changing subversion properties doesn't fix historical data, so it won't fix anything that we can't fix in git.

That's also my understanding.

Yes, this is right.

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The conversion doesn't respect .gitattributes, that's why there's a problem. We can fix these issues in current and future versions by normalizing the files (as described in the gitattributes man page).

Ah, "normalizing" is the keyword I am missing. Thanks.

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?

I'm still more familiar with Subversion than git. Fixing it on the svn side would be my personal favourite. I did some similar conversions on while converting from CVS years ago in order to end up with a "clean" repository without need for further actions. But cvs2svn/git is a scary thing...

Since we can't fix these files in historical versions we could re-run

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the conversion with gitattributes that unsets the text attribute for the problematic files (something like "*.bat -text", "*.vsproj -text", "*.svg -text"). Then in git update the gitattributes (to something like "*.bat text eol=crlf", "*.vsproj text eol=crlf", "*.svg text") and normalize the files so that it does what we want. We can script that, so it shouldn't require too much work.

As long as we are sure the .gitattributes are correct, and then renormalize, why do we have to rerun the conversion at all? What am I missing?

My goal was to avoid any "conversion" commits. I should have explicitly said so. I'm fine with having a handful of "normalizing" commits and let the repository go live.

From the replies I think there is consensus (or at least a great majority) to renormalize and move forward.

Thanks for managing this whole thing so patiently. Yours, Jürgen -- * Dipl.-Math. Jürgen Hunold ! * voice: ++49 4257 300 ! Fährstraße 1 * fax : ++49 4257 300 ! 31609 Balge/Sebbenhausen * jhunold@gmx.eu ! Germany