Re: Automatic core.autocrlf?

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Aug 28, 2018, 00:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20180828001403.GA432229@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <94afe154-53e1-761a-4a66-4f77188036f7@gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 07:32:08PM +0200, Andrei Rybak wrote:

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> On 2018-08-27 17:52, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 5:37 PM Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
> >>> In those cases, when it falls back to
> >>> configuration for line ending management, I want it to be
> >>> automatically configured based on the host platform.
> >>
> > 
> > An alternative is supporting conditional config includes based on
> > platform or host name, but I don't know if there are more use cases
> > like this to justify it.
> > 
> 
> How about just using unconditional includes?
> 
> global.gitconfig (synced across machines):
> 
>   [include]
>       path = platform-specific.gitconfig
> 
> And two version of file named "platform-specific.gitconfig", which
> are not synced, and include only code.autocrlf setting.

There's actually a way to do this that works with older Git versions as well: put global config in .gitconfig and per-system config in .config/git/config. Or you can use some sort of script (say, a Makefile) to install the proper values based on your system.

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