From: Tait <git.git@t41t.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:57:19 GMT
Subject: Re: core.autocrlf considered half-assed
Message-ID: <20100308185719.GQ2480@ece.pdx.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003071538350.30214@localhost.localdomain>

> 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