Re: Unresolved issues

From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Feb 21, 2007, 10:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20070221104209.GM21842@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702210136050.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

hoi :)

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:39:48AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> In that case, .gitattributes (I mean a tracked one) would be wrong, wrong, 
> wrong.

I don't think so.

> It's a local setup if you want auto-CRLF or not. So, why not just make it 
> a local setting (if in config or $GIT_DIR/info/gitattributes, I don't 
> care) which shell patterns are to be transformed on input and/or output?

The file-type/whatever information about paths is per repository. Whether you want to do crlf conversion for "text" files is a local setting. So I do think that a tracked .gitattributes makes sense.

Of course you also need some local settings (e.g. in .git/config) to use that information. Perhaps something like:

[filetype "text*"]
	AutoCRLF = yes

[filetype "text/xml"]
	Merge = xml-merge -whatever

-- 
Martin Waitz