From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:16:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] treat any file with NUL as binary
Message-ID: <7vve5ubmdm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080116011321.GD13984@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:

> Then it seems to me, Linus sounded more in favor of that change than
> against it. His main argument was against 'diff' heuristic, which he
> felt was not strict enough for CRLF translation: "It's *much* better
> to miss some CRLF translation than to do too much of it."

Yeah, you found the right one, and I agreed with the argument
back then, and I agree with it now.  I think NUL heuristics is a
good one and obviously it makes it tighter than what diff uses,
which should be what we are aiming for in this thread.