From: Alan S. <st...@ro...> - 2010-12-06 15:09:59
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On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Michael Plante wrote: > Dammit!! Maybe safecrlf isn't the problem; maybe git is actually broken > here? Am I correct in assuming the entire working copy should be discarded > when you switch branches? Probably not. Git is clever about minimizing the amount of work it needs to do. It wouldn't be at all surprising to find that it leaves files unchanged when switching branches if no commits on those branches have modified the file. It might do this even when the CRLF settings are different for the two branches, and this might be a bug in git. However I am very far from being an expert on git. If this still matters to you guys, why don't you post a message or two on the git development mailing list? Alan Stern |