Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization

From: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Date: May 7, 2010, 21:17 UTC
Message-ID: <384AA932-227B-43B0-9D38-560A3567918A@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005071355380.901@i5.linux-foundation.org>

On 7. mai 2010, at 22.57, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Fri, 7 May 2010, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:
>> 
>> How can you say that this is simpler than my syntax?
> 
> Because your syntax adds totally new attributes, so now you can't even 
> take an existing .gitattributes and make it do something sane - instead 
> you have to write totally new rules.

I don't understand.  All you have to do is add "* auto-eol=true" to your .gitattributes, and line endings will be normalized exactly as if you'd set "core.autocrlf".  Why would you have to write totally new rules?  Which rules?

> My suggestion just makes any existing usage do the "what you'd expect".
> 
> THAT is simpler.

Well, sort of, but "simple for someone who already knows how core.autocrlf works" isn't what I'm aiming for :)

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Eyvind