[PATCH] .gitattributes: include `text` attribute for eol attributes

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: Feb 3, 2023, 12:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20230203125920.751-1-philipoakley@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <20220216115239.uo2ie3flaqo3nf2d@tb-raspi4>

The standard advice for text file eol endings in the .gitattributes file was updated in e28eae3184 (gitattributes: Document the unified "auto" handling, 2016-08-26) with a recent clarification in 8c591dbfce (docs: correct documentation about eol attribute, 2022-01-11), with a follow up comment by the original author in [1] confirming the use of the eol attribute in conjunction with the text attribute.

Update Git's .gitattributes file to reflect our own advice.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=%3C20220216115239.uo2ie3flaqo3nf2d%40tb-raspi4%3E.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
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I was catching up on last year's back emails, and had saved those on eol and text conversion, and was prompted by Torsten's [1] to check my .gitattribute files, only to discover, we aren't providing a good example to others. Let's fix that.

 .gitattributes | 22 +++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index b0044cf272..158c3d45c4 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 * whitespace=!indent,trail,space
 *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp
-*.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space eol=lf
-*.perl eol=lf diff=perl
-*.pl eof=lf diff=perl
-*.pm eol=lf diff=perl
-*.py eol=lf diff=python
-*.bat eol=crlf
+*.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space text eol=lf
+*.perl text eol=lf diff=perl
+*.pl text eof=lf diff=perl
+*.pm text eol=lf diff=perl
+*.py text eol=lf diff=python
+*.bat text eol=crlf
 CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md -whitespace
-/Documentation/**/*.txt eol=lf
-/command-list.txt eol=lf
-/GIT-VERSION-GEN eol=lf
-/mergetools/* eol=lf
-/t/oid-info/* eol=lf
+/Documentation/**/*.txt text eol=lf
+/command-list.txt text eol=lf
+/GIT-VERSION-GEN text eol=lf
+/mergetools/* text eol=lf
+/t/oid-info/* text eol=lf
 /Documentation/git-merge.txt conflict-marker-size=32
 /Documentation/gitk.txt conflict-marker-size=32
 /Documentation/user-manual.txt conflict-marker-size=32

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