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Re: suggestion for improved docs on autocrlf

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Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date
Aug 13, 2019, 15:40 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 03:31:43PM +0000, Yagnatinsky, Mark wrote:
> Thank you once more.  Finally, I believe I understood everything you said.
> I was about to say that this contradicts my own experience.
> But then I remembered that I normally use my IDE rather than the command line.
> And I just checked that indeed that the behavior of my IDE is totally different!

Would you like to elobarate which IDE that is? The core.autocrlf handling has been improved a couple of times, and it seams that your IDE does things different from git.git (Which is not ideal)

> It renormalizes line endings of existing files whenever autocrlf is set to input.
> Sigh.  Okay, great, life makes sense again.  I want to yell at my IDE now.
>
> I now feel brave enough to attempt to come up with better wording for autocrlf docs, if you think that's worth trying.
That would be good, I am happy to review patches.
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