[postgis-devel] extras/tiger_geocoder/upgrade_geocoder.bat and CRLF

[Sandro Santilli]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 12:39:53PM -0400, John Harvey wrote:

> I can think of one other option, although it's a little messier.  There
> could be a CI job that detects and corrects these situations when they
> occur.  I don't think it would be that painful to set up, although the
> downside to such a thing is that it basically continues the back-and-forth
> model that strk referenced.
> 
> It's worth noting that since this situation has occurred, it's causing some
> of my builds that use the git repo to fail.  Currently, "git clone"
> followed by "git checkout" does not work due to the famous "files would be
> overwritten by checkout" error.  For now, I can get around it with "git
> checkout --force", but it's worth noting that there could be other users
> similarly affected.

Just a note: `git checkout --force` does not work with git version
2.1.4, which is the version running on the system playing the now
broken svn->git mirroring system.

--strk;