From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:07:03 GMT
Subject: Re: CRLF support bugs (was: Re: .gitattributes glob matchingbroken)
Message-ID: <20081105030702.GD20907@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F79430296676E@emailmn.mqsoftware.com>

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 06:37:27AM -0600, Kelly F. Hickel wrote:

> From my point of view, the factoid that a particular file should be
> subjected to having its line endings munged is a _project_ decision.
> Whether or not to munge them on any given platform is a _local_
> decision.

Now that you spell it out, I am reminded that that is the argument I
remember having seen in past discussions. And of course, that argues for
.gitattributes being carried by the project, but the core.autocrlf
_config_ being a local decision.

Which, perhaps not coincidentally, is how it is currently implemented. :)

-Peff