This makes .gitattributes files to be read from the index when
they are not checked out to the work tree. This is in line with
the way we always allowed low-level tools to operate in sparsely
checked out work tree in a reasonable way.
It swaps the order of new file creation and converting the blob
to work tree representation; otherwise when we are in the middle
of checking out .gitattributes we would notice an empty but
unwritten .gitattributes file in the work tree and will ignore
the copy in the index.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This updates the semantics of 'crlf' so that .gitattributes file
can say "this is text, even though it may look funny".
Setting the `crlf` attribute on a path is meant to mark the path
as a "text" file. 'core.autocrlf' conversion takes place
without guessing the content type by inspection.
Unsetting the `crlf` attribute on a path is meant to mark the
path as a "binary" file. The path never goes through line
endings conversion upon checkin/checkout.
Unspecified `crlf` attribute tells git to apply the
`core.autocrlf` conversion when the file content looks like
text.
Setting the `crlf` attribut to string value "input" is similar
to setting the attribute to `true`, but also forces git to act
as if `core.autocrlf` is set to `input` for the path.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
At the same time, we do not want to allow arbitrary strings for
attribute names, as we are likely to want to extend the syntax
later. Allow only alnum, dash, underscore and dot for now.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This defines the semantics of 'crlf' attribute as an example.
When a path has this attribute unset (i.e. '!crlf'), autocrlf
line-end conversion is not applied.
Eventually we would want to let users to build a pipeline of
processing to munge blob data to filesystem format (and in the
other direction) based on combination of attributes, and at that
point the mechanism in convert_to_{git,working_tree}() that
looks at 'crlf' attribute needs to be enhanced. Perhaps the
existing 'crlf' would become the first step in the input chain,
and the last step in the output chain.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This teaches git-apply that the data read from and written to
the filesystem might need to get converted to adjust for local
line-ending convention.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This tests lowlevel of update/checkout codepaths and some patch
application. Currently, variants of "git apply" that look at
the working tree files does not work, so it does not test the
patch application without parameter and with --index parameter
when autocrlf is set to produce CRLF files.
We should add test for diff generation too.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
