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On Fri, 2018-12-14 at 14:24 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 12/14/18 11:59, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> > Hmm, this gets me thinking...
> > 
> > We were discussing before about doing a line ending conversion in
> > edk2, and let the git gools provide native line endings (as
> > designed).
> > 
> > Is this a good opportunity to run a pilot with edk2-test, where
> > much
> > less history will be lost?
> 
> Well, history won't be lost, in the sense that people running "git
> blame" will need one more execution of "git blame" (to "look past"
> the
> whitespace change commit), but yes, it will result in a minor
> inconvenience.
> 
> And, I think, converting the edk2-test repo would not be a bad test
> at all.
> 
Thanks Leif/Laszlo. I volunteer to try the tool. However, I admit that
I have not tried this before, any pointers/instructions on how to do
this?

> Thanks,
> Laszlo