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Re: core.autocrlf considered half-assed

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TTait <git.git@t41t.com>
Date
Mar 8, 2010, 18:57 UTC
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> I do agree. It would probably have been a good idea to mark the CRLF
> status in the index, but we didn't...

We already have .gitattributes for tracking information about files. Maybe add an attribute to describe the in-repository line endings? The default would be LF, as now, and a new attribute could change the checked-in format to be CRLF.

Tait
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