Re: Bug report

2012-10-09 Thread John Whitney
On 10/9/12 12:17 PM, John Whitney wrote: Thank you very much for your detailed explanations. I suspected that efficiency concerns might be preventing a clean solution. How about this idea... When git stores files, it could include a bit of metadata that tells it whether the file is a binary

Re: Bug report

2012-10-09 Thread John Whitney
On 10/7/12 6:52 PM, Jeff King wrote: Yes, but does that really have to be an issue? Is there any technical or practical reason you can think of that the repository shouldn't ignore those CRs? It's significantly less efficient. Right now git only has to do the conversion when updating the index

Re: Bug report

2012-10-06 Thread John Whitney
On 10/6/12 8:31 AM, Jeff King wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:10:40AM -0500, John Whitney wrote: Thank you for your response. I do see the dilemma, but having no possible "unmodified" state is extremely inconvenient and, as shown, breaks basic git operations. But you have as

Re: Bug report

2012-10-04 Thread John Whitney
Andrew, I forgot to say that all of the config settings are not changed from the default. ---John On 10/4/12 11:16 AM, John Whitney wrote: Andrew, Thanks for checking this on your machine. This problem occurs on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and with multiple versions of git. Note that in my

Re: Bug report

2012-10-04 Thread John Whitney
run the script like this: "sh git_failure.sh" ---John On 10/4/12 10:21 AM, Andrew Wong wrote: On 10/04/2012 12:35 AM, John Whitney wrote: I just ran into a problem that I'm pretty sure is a bug in git. Just read and run this (fairly trivial) shell script to replicate. I trie

Re: Bug report

2012-10-04 Thread John Whitney
ng the file out, and consider that form (or both forms) as "unmodified". It just doesn't make sense to me that files are considered modified immediately after checkout. Any thoughts as to why this would not work? ---John On 10/4/12 9:19 AM, Phil Hord wrote: On Thu, Oct 4,

Bug report

2012-10-03 Thread John Whitney
Hi all! I just ran into a problem that I'm pretty sure is a bug in git. Just read and run this (fairly trivial) shell script to replicate. Thanks! ---John Whitney git_failure.sh Description: Bourne shell script