Re: Improving CRLF error message; also, enabling autocrlf and?safecrlf by default

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 16, 2009, 03:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20090216034311.GA12616@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090216T032551-612@post.gmane.org>

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 03:29:23AM +0000, Jason Spiro wrote:

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> > > 2.  In addition, could you please enable the core.autocrlf and 
> core.safecrlf 
> > > options by default in the next version of Git?
> > 
> > I think that is up to your platform packaging, I think. I think msysgit
> > is shipping with core.autocrlf on by default these days. But again, I
> > don't know very much about that area.
> 
> Are you saying that only my platform's packager can decide what options are 
> enabled by default, and that you upstream folks have no influence at all?  :)

Not necessarily. But I don't think we want core.autocrlf on by default for all platforms. So the decision needs to be made on a platform by platform basis. The cleanest way to do that (in my opinion) is through a system-level configuration file. But git built from src does not distribute such a configuration file at all; that seems to be in the scope of package distributors.

-Peff