Re: Line endings: Was "Re: [edk2-test][Patch] uefi-sct/SctPkg:Correct macro name style in HwErrRecVariable Test"

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 12/14/18 18:12, Supreeth Venkatesh wrote:
> 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?

I imagine you'd run a "find" command to locate all source/text files
(skip ".git"), then feed them to xargs / dos2unix.

The trick is more in the git settings, once the internal representation
has been converted to LF only. I'm thinking that "core.whitespace",
"am.keepcr" and "core.autocrlf" should be set the "right way". (= to be
researched)

Thanks
Laszlo