Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 08:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20070214084121.GB25617@uranus.ravnborg.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702131524130.3604@woody.linux-foundation.org>

> > This whole auto CRLF things seems to deal with DOS issues that I personally
> > have not encountered since looong time ago.
> 
> Maybe you stopped using DOS a loong time ago ;)

Unfortunately not. (Sitting with a Windows 2000 laptop atm but saved by ssh).

> 
> It's definitely an issue. Yes, all windows programs basically *understand* 
> files that have just LF. But almost all of them will *write* files with 
> CRLF.

So the issue with git supporting CRLF -> LF is to make interoperability between UNIX* programs and Windows programs which is anohter domain.

My main objective is the proposal to make a conversion default when many users do not need it. For the UNIX* compatibility thing having conversion at lowest layer make sense.

> (Which means that I suspect I made the default for "auto_crlf" be wrong in 
> my patch: I probably should not default to checking out with CRLF, but 
> checking out with just LF, and only do the CRLF->LF conversion on input).

Expect that it seems a few br0ken programs yet does not support LF as end-of-line marker - so .gitattriutes make take special care here.

Sam