Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkout: fix attribute handling in checkout all

> On Aug 13, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
>> Steffen Prohaska said the following on 13.08.2007 08:50:
>>> We should really make autocrlf = true the default for us and
>>> fix all problems that we'll encounter. There may be more tricky
>>> stuff ahead, like merges, cherry-picks, ...
>> I'm more leaning towards having the installer give you the option
>>  to choose what kind of line-endings you want Git to work with;
>> just like the Cygwin installer.
> 
> Which is the root of much trouble with Cygwin. People now say, git
> works perfectly in Cygwin but forget to mention that they mean
> Cygwin A (in binmode) but not Cygwin B (in textmode).
> 
> Better choose the right default and work hard to make the default
> choice work perfectly. I am strongly against an option in the
> installer. An option _will_ cause confusion. Better give people a
> hint how they can override the default for a single user, or for a
> single repo. Then they recognize that they move to a non-default
> configuration and hopefully think twice. And we never need to talk
> about msysgit A vs. msysgit B, but only about msysgit with repo
> specific or user specific options.
> 
> For me, the question comes down to the following: What would the 
> average Windows user (real Windows user, not Linux user who was 
> forced to work in Cygwin!) expect git to do with line endings? The
> answer to this question should be the default.