From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Andrej Shadura <andrew.shadura@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add --no-filters option to git-add
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 14:10:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YDEYaVibMFo1OJZs@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c660bf7b-cd59-43d4-a374-11997f0b15d1@collabora.co.uk>
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On 2021-02-20 at 09:30:58, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> On 20/02/2021 09:06, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> > On 19/02/2021 23:36, brian m. carlson wrote:
> >> So I think that while this might be a useful escape hatch for users, I
> >> definitely want to see a compelling rationale for it and a big warning
> >> in the documentation and an update to the relevant entry in the Git FAQ
> >> before we accept such a patch.
>
> Here’s my proposal for the updated manpage description of the option:
>
> --no-filters::
>
> Add the contents as is, ignoring any input filter that would have been
> chosen by the attributes mechanism, including the end-of-line
> conversion. Note that this option is not intended for interactive use,
> since files added this way will always show up as modified if Git were
> to apply transformations to them, making the situation potentially very
> confusing.
>
> And here the FAQ entry extended:
>
> It is also possible for perpetually modified files to occur on any
> platform if a smudge or clean filter is in use on your system but a file
> was previously committed without running the smudge or clean filter. To
> fix this, run the following on an otherwise clean working tree:
> +
> ----
> $ git add --renormalize .
> ----
> +
> Another situation where perpetually modified may appear on any platform
> is when a file has been committed without running any filters (including
> the end-of-line conversion), but the `.gitattributes` file states that
> this file requires a conversion. In this case, you can either
> renormalize the files if this happened by mistake, or modify
> `.gitattributes` or `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` as described above to
> exempt the file from the conversion if this was intentional.
>
> (I will send an updated patch set when we agree on the wording.)
This seems fine. Thanks for being open to addressing my concerns, and I
agree that your use case seems like a good one and that this is a
valuable feature.
--
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Houston, Texas, US
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-20 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-19 18:12 [PATCH 0/2] Add --no-filters option to git-add Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget
2021-02-19 18:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] add: add option --no-filters to disable attribute-based filtering Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget
2021-02-19 18:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] hash-object: use the new HASH_RAW flag instead of setting path to NULL Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget
2021-02-19 22:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] Add --no-filters option to git-add brian m. carlson
2021-02-20 8:06 ` Andrej Shadura
2021-02-20 9:30 ` Andrej Shadura
2021-02-20 14:10 ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2021-02-20 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 " Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget
2021-02-20 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] add: add option --no-filters to disable attribute-based filtering Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget
2021-02-20 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] hash-object: use the new HASH_RAW flag instead of setting path to NULL Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget
2021-02-20 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Add --no-filters option to git-add Junio C Hamano
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