git blame breaking on repository with CRLF files

["Benkstein, Frank" <frank.benkstein@sap.com>]

Hello,

I am working working on Linux and am examining code in a git repository I do
not know much about.  I am only looking at files, not changing anything.  On
some files in the repository I get "00000000 (Not Committed Yet" for all lines
when running "git blame".  I checked with "git status", "git reset", "git
clean" that the files are indeed in the repository and unmodified.  I noticed
that this only happens with git v2.5.0.  With git v2.4.0 it looks correct, i.e.
the output has proper commit ids, Author names and dates..  With "git bisect" I
tracked this down to the following commit:

 commit 4bf256d67a85bed1e175ecc2706322eafe4489ca (HEAD, refs/bisect/bad)
 Author: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
 Date:   Sun May 3 18:38:01 2015 +0200

     blame: CRLF in the working tree and LF in the repo

Digging further, it seems that most files in the repository are checked in with
CRLF line endings.  In my working tree these are checked out as LF - which
seems to be the exact opposite situation of what the commit is trying to
address.  When I set "core.autocrlf" to "false" I also get the correct behavior
of "git blame" - this is a workaround as long as I do not have to actually
modify anything.

Best regards,
Frank.