add: introduce "--renormalize"

Make it safer to normalize the line endings in a repository.
Files that had been commited with CRLF will be commited with LF.

The old way to normalize a repo was like this:

 # Make sure that there are not untracked files
 $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes
 $ git read-tree --empty
 $ git add .
 $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"

The user must make sure that there are no untracked files,
otherwise they would have been added and tracked from now on.

The new "add --renormalize" does not add untracked files:

 $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes
 $ git add --renormalize .
 $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"

Note that "git add --renormalize <pathspec>" is the short form for
"git add -u --renormalize <pathspec>".

While at it, document that the same renormalization may be needed,
whenever a clean filter is added or changed.

Helped-By: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 6440e2b..3e63a74 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -686,6 +686,7 @@ extern int ie_modified(const struct index_state *, const struct cache_entry *, s
 
 #define HASH_WRITE_OBJECT 1
 #define HASH_FORMAT_CHECK 2
+#define HASH_RENORMALIZE  4
 extern int index_fd(struct object_id *oid, int fd, struct stat *st, enum object_type type, const char *path, unsigned flags);
 extern int index_path(struct object_id *oid, const char *path, struct stat *st, unsigned flags);