Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 1/4] Add "core.eolStyle" variable to control end-of-line conversion

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: May 10, 2010, 07:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20100510071607.GC14069@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <o2h600158c31005090030uba3686e3v8bfe0be02bf2283d@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 01:30:10AM -0600, hasen j wrote:

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> On 9 May 2010 01:00, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...] Also,
> > I would rather call default as "default" instead of "native". So,
> > why not use "core.crlf={true, false, default}"?
> 
> default and native have completely different connotations. default
> makes me think "one of true or false, which ever happens to be the
> default". native is a better fit here.

but indeed core.crlf=default means that it is either true or false whatever happened the system default, as well as "default" means the same as if it would be if it is not specified at all. If it were eol=native, it would be okay, but crlf=native looks strange to me.

Dmitry