From: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 10:59:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v3 4/5] Rename "crlf" attribute as "eolconv"
Message-ID: <961B7250-F65E-4C67-8C5C-6701F68C2FC0@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005121824260.3711@i5.linux-foundation.org>

On 13. mai 2010, at 03.38, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 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