Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 13, 2007, 18:11 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlkj2vset.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702131901040.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> No hooks means something like cvsnt does, and that means no .gitattributes 
> either. (BTW I really hate .gitattributes, as it does not at all say what 
> this is about; it's about file _conversions_, not attributes).

> However, I am slightly positive about the .gitfiletypes approach, _iff_ we 
> think about more than just text/binary from the start. If we do it right, 
> it will buy us more.

We might start with only binary/text attributes, but we may add more later, e.g. chmod=o-rwx. I do not see much differnece between attributes vs filetypes.

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