Re: msysgit: should core.autocrlf=true be the default on Windows?

From: Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 12, 2007, 05:36 UTC
Message-ID: <84CFEBB5D7FE48FF86FEF3289C8DDAA8@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <7816DAAF-53CB-468C-9597-36AA94AC6476@zib.de>

Please keep in mind that msysgit is targeting developers who want to contribute to MinGW port of git. Since building and editing happens in MinGW environment the LF-only default seems reasonable. On the other hand, setup for end-users should have it as default, I agree. Please report this issue here: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/list

- Dmitry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steffen Prohaska" <prohaska@zib.de>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>; "Marius Storm-Olsen" <marius@trolltech.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, 11 August 2007 13:56
Subject: msysgit: should core.autocrlf=true be the default on Windows?

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>I think core.autocrlf=true should be the default on Windows.
> I strongly believe that Windows users expect this default,
> as others Windows application rely on it. I recently tried to
> use kdiff3 on Windows and got satisfactory results only after
> using autocrlf.
> 
> autocrlf should be set right from the very beginning. If you
> found out about it later, you would have to convert your existing
> working trees, which is not too easy. Therefore we should
> guide the user to a reasonable default.
> 
> We can report the defaults we chose in *bold* after the
> installation completed and give a hint where further background
> information can be found, and what would be needed to adjust
> the default.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Would /etc/gitconfig in msysgit be the right place to set the
> default?
> 
> Steffen
> 
>