From: Matthias Kestenholz <lists@spinlock.ch>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:06:35 GMT
Subject: Re: gitattributes
Message-ID: <1f6632e50704241506q15315ccbi239b5eee1f184b3e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pn55u4d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

2007/4/24, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>:
> "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 4/24/07, Matthias Kestenholz <lists@spinlock.ch> wrote:
> >> The .gitattributes system together with input/output filters has already
> >> proven exceptionally useful for me. I've got some co-workers which
> >> do not seem to care about CRLF line endings or whitespace damage.
> >>
> >> core.autocrlf = input
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> [filter "whitespace"]
> >>   clean = stripspace
> >>   smudge = cat
> >>
> >
> > Why didn't --ignore-space-at-eol, -b and -w work for you?
>
> It should.  What Matthias would want more is probably to have
> others to have the "clean" side of the filter in their working
> repository.

Yes, that's the reason. Furthermore, I like the approach of the filter
better than adding command line arguments (which I and others will
always forget on the first try)

I've just copy-pasted the smudge filter from an example I saw on
the list. I'll retest the filter setup tomorrow without "smudge = cat"
and look for problems.