From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 17:45:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 1/4] Add "core.eolStyle" variable to control end-of-line conversion
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In-Reply-To: <CD080D38-811C-4BBF-A5CB-6B613555FE72@gmail.com>

Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com> writes:

> My user interface would have been:
>
> - an attribute "eolconv" that enables or disables line ending conversion
> - a config variable "core.eolconv" that sets "eolconv" for all files where it is unset
> - a config variable "core.localeol" that decides whether LF or CRLF is preferred

I am puzzled about this second item; what is its type and what is its
purpose?  If it is to allow project-wide default to be specified, then
isn't having "* eolconv=true" in .gitattributes a much better option and
is already supported by the first item?