Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Date: Jan 9, 2008, 18:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20080109184630.GB20892@efreet.light.src>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801081150010.25629@ds9.cixit.se>

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

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> Thomas Neumann:
> 
> > as a user, I expect a SCM to only modify a file when I have
> > explicitly asked it to do so.
> 
> As a user, I exepect things to just work. With RCS/CVS/Subversion, it
> does, because it differentiates between text files (internally encoding
> NLs with "LF", but I couldn't care less what it uses there) and binary
> files (which it doesn't change). With git it currently doesn't since it
> treats everything as binary files.

With subversion you must explicitely enable it to "just" work. Subversion auto-tags files with specified extensions, when they are added, with svn:eol property specifying how the file should be converted and than converts (everywhere) the files to specified line endings. However, AFAIK, it does not convert anything unless the properties are set and the default config has the automatic setting *commented out*.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>