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Re: [PATCH] Fix 'crlf' attribute semantics.

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 15, 2007, 23:44 UTC
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Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net> writes:

<offtopic>Please do not rudely point other people with mail-followup-to; I did not want to address this message to Linus but wanted to talk to YOU specifically, and you stole a few seconds of my time, forcing me to rewrite my To: line </offtopic>

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> On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 04:10:56PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Earlier we said 'crlf lets the path go through core.autocrlf
>> process while !crlf disables it altogether'.  This fixes the
>> semantics to:
>
> This change means there is no way to enable the automatic heuristics for a
> specific pattern once it has been disable for a more generic pattern. Would it
> make sense to make the attributes more than simply boolean?

I do not think that is a problem in practice. Do not set something to "false" explicitly with a generic pattern, if you might want to override it.

Previous: Tom PrinceNext: Raimund Bauer
Message 16 of 19 in “Add basic infrastructure to assign attributes to paths”
  1. 1/3 Add basic infrastructure to assign attributes to pathsJunio C Hamano, Apr 13, 2007
  2. Andy ParkinsApr 13, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2007
  4. 1/2 attribute macro supportJunio C Hamano, Apr 15, 2007
  5. 2/2 Define a few built-in attribute rules.Junio C Hamano, Apr 15, 2007
  6. Linus TorvaldsApr 15, 2007
  7. Brian GernhardtApr 15, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2007
  10. Johannes SchindelinApr 15, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2007
  12. Linus TorvaldsApr 15, 2007
  13. Fix 'crlf' attribute semantics.Junio C Hamano, Apr 15, 2007
  14. Fix 'diff' attribute semantics.Junio C Hamano, Apr 15, 2007
  15. Tom PrinceApr 15, 2007
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2007
  17. Raimund BauerApr 16, 2007
  18. Linus TorvaldsApr 13, 2007
  19. Johannes SchindelinApr 15, 2007

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