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Re: [RFC/PATCH v3 4/5] Rename "crlf" attribute as "eolconv"

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Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Date
May 13, 2010, 10:59 UTC
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<961B7250-F65E-4C67-8C5C-6701F68C2FC0@gmail.com>
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On 13. mai 2010, at 03.38, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> so now you can write:
> 
> 	*.jpg -text
> 	*.txt text
> 	*.vcproj eol=crlf
> 	*.sh eol=lf
> 	* text=auto
[...]
> Doesn't that look finally sane?
> 
> Because if we really renaem the attributes, let's rename them _right_.
Beautiful.
Do you agree that "native" eol should only be CRLF if autocrlf is true?  Otherwise, if .gitattributes looks like this:
	*.txt text
git will put CRLFs in .txt files but LFs in .c files, and I don't think that makes much sense.
-- 
Eyvind
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Message 17 of 27 in “End-of-line normalization, redesigned”
  1. 0/5 End-of-line normalization, redesignedEyvind Bernhardsen, May 12, 2010
  2. 1/5 autocrlf: Make it work also for un-normalized repositoriesEyvind Bernhardsen, May 12, 2010
  3. 2/5 Add tests for per-repository eol normalizationEyvind Bernhardsen, May 12, 2010
  4. 3/5 Add per-repository eol normalizationEyvind Bernhardsen, May 12, 2010
  5. 4/5 Rename "crlf" attribute as "eolconv"Eyvind Bernhardsen, May 12, 2010
  6. Linus TorvaldsMay 13, 2010
  7. Robert BuckMay 13, 2010
  8. Robert BuckMay 13, 2010
  9. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 13, 2010
  10. Robert BuckMay 13, 2010
  11. utf8 BOMDmitry Potapov, May 14, 2010
  12. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 15, 2010
  13. Dmitry PotapovMay 16, 2010
  14. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 16, 2010
  15. TaitMay 16, 2010
  16. Dmitry PotapovMay 16, 2010
  17. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 13, 2010
  18. Linus TorvaldsMay 13, 2010
  19. Robert BuckMay 14, 2010
  20. Jonathan NiederMay 14, 2010
  21. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 14, 2010
  22. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 14, 2010
  23. Eyvind BernhardsenMay 14, 2010
  24. Linus TorvaldsMay 14, 2010
  25. Add "core.eol" variable to control end-of-line conversionEyvind Bernhardsen, May 15, 2010
  26. Robert BuckMay 16, 2010
  27. 5/5 Rename "core.autocrlf" config variable as "core.eolconv"Eyvind Bernhardsen, May 12, 2010

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