From: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 05:14:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 1/4] Add "core.eolStyle" variable to control end-of-line conversion
Message-ID: <3AD575F0-D29E-4E2B-96EA-862C167F7FDC@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwrvc91r8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 9. mai 2010, at 23.57, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org> writes:
> 
>> Are you thinking we could live completely without it?
> 
> Yes, and your description makes it sound like it doesn't buy us anything
> that an entry '* eolconv=true" in .git/info/attributes wouldn't.

I'm not sure I even knew about .git/info/attributes, but it makes a lot of sense.  The config variable would allow a user to turn on normalization globally, I guess, but that's probably not worth it.
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Eyvind