Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 8, 2008, 11:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20080108110757.GB18087@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801081150010.25629@ds9.cixit.se>

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:56:00AM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:

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> If I occasionally need to do a
> 
>  git add -kb binary.txt
> 
> to flag a file explicitely, that's a small price to pay for everything
> else to work out of the box.

For you, perhaps, since you apparently infrequently commit binary files and derive some benefit from CRLF conversion. But please bear in mind that there are people on the other end of the spectrum who want the opposite (i.e., who could care less about CRLF, but _do_ have binary files).

-Peff

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