[PATCH] D124606: Use `-text` git attribute instead of `text eol=...'

Thu Apr 28 08:52:54 PDT 2022

aaronpuchert added a comment.

In D124606#3480281 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D124606#3480281>, @labath wrote:

> In D124606#3480164 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D124606#3480164>, @aaronpuchert wrote:
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>> An editor could inadvertently change the line endings, and someone might not notice before committing.
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> From what I understood, most of these tests would immediately break (due to hardcoded offsets) if the line endings were changed.

Ok, that's a valid point.

> The branch switching issue (discussed in D124563 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D124563>) is one.

That is an issue, but I don't think this change fixes it. D124563 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D124563> did normalize the file endings and switching between branches after that should work fine. Switching between branches before that will remain broken because the files had not been normalized. I don't think any change can fix that because they can't retroactively change the inconsistent snapshots.

> We also ran into problems when importing this into our version control system (as it did not do the .gitattributes conversion) -- although one could say that is not an upstream problem...

Got it, so some implementations simply can't deal with this.

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