Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Jan 9, 2008, 12:41 UTC
Message-ID: <04EF2652-9AA8-4976-903F-DBE4E7AA13D7@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801091054400.31053@racer.site>

On Jan 9, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Peter Karlsson wrote:
>
>> Linus Torvalds:
>>
>>> So defaulting to (or asking) "autocrlf" at install time is probably
>>> the safest thing, and then people can edit their  
>>> global .gitconfig to
>>> turn it off.
>>
>> Indeed. A checkbox in the Windows installer (like Cygwin has)  
>> would be
>> nice.
>
> No.  There are different needs for different projects, and having
> different defaults just adds to the confusion.
>
> I am no longer opposed to setting crlf=true by default for Git  
> (although
> this does not necessarily hold true for msysGit, but that could be
> helped by explicitely unsetting crlf for the repositories we check out
> with the netinstaller).

I'll further think about "crlf=safe" (see another mail in this thread). I like the idea of safe because it guarantees that data will never be corrupted. But I have no time to think about it immediately.

	Steffen