From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:51:05 GMT
Subject: Re: CRLF, LF ... CR ?
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In-Reply-To: <CAJDDKr5-ze2bhTkT+jzcS1iZipJO6kEr2qAf73GRn4QQ-rS1dQ@mail.gmail.com>

David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:

> git doesn't really even support LF.

At the storage level that is correct, but the above is a bit of
stretch.  It may not be "support", but git _does_ rely on LF when
running many text oriented operations (a rough rule of thumb is
"does 'a line' in a file matter to the operation?").  Think about
"git diff" and "git blame".