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

> Junio C Hamano said the following on 13.08.2007 08:14:
>> Ok, let's step back a bit and I'll suggest an alternative
>> approach to your 1/2.  This would hopefully solve 2/2 without
>> any code change your patch 2/2 has.
> (..snip..)
>> I think this approach is very much in line with how the git
>> plumbing works, but you would need to know how the world is
>> designed to work in order to appreciate it fully.  Let's have a
>> few paragraphs to give the readers some background.
> (..snip..)
>> Currently, the attr_stack code reads only from the work tree
>> and work tree alone.  We could change it to:
>>  - If the directory on the work tree has .gitattributes, use it
>>    (this is what the current code does);
>>  - Otherwise if the index has .gitattributes at the
>>    corresponding path, use that instead.
>> This essentially treats not having .gitattributes files checked
>> out as equivalent to having these files checked out unmodified,
>> which is very much in line with how the world is designed to
>> work.
>
> ACK! We really need this! :-)
>
> In msysgit.git/etc/.gitattributes we have 'termcap -crlf', to avoid  
> the termcaps being checked out with Windows EOL, if the user  
> happens to have 'autocrlf = true'. However, when you checkout the  
> working dir the first time it still has Windows EOL due to exactly  
> this problem.