From: Torsten Bögershausen Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:40:33 GMT Subject: Re: suggestion for improved docs on autocrlf Message-ID: <20190813154033.uhi7w5jgwcj4xan7@tb-raspi4> In-Reply-To: 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.