From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:57:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New whitespace checking category 'trailing-blank-line'
Message-ID: <7v7hxvov55.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vbpn7p1mw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I think the way we handled cr-at-eol was suboptimal. We should be able to
> link this to crlf attribute (and core.autocrlf configuration) and pretend
> as if cr-at-eol was given if a file is subject to the crlf conversion
> (iow,. cr-at-eol should be deprecated/removed as a mistake).

I was a moron.  I think cr-at-eol was really the best we could do, as it
is to allow CR at the end of the line _in the tracked contents_; iow,
people who would want to use this would not be using crlf attribute at all.

So please strike this part out, but everything else stays the same.