From: Robert Buck <buck.robert.j@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 10:35:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization
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On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Eyvind Bernhardsen
<eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9. mai 2010, at 01.42, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
>
>> On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 02:54:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> You could talk about "binary" vs "text", and it would make sense, but your
>>> argument that "eol" is somehow better than "crlf" is just insane.
>>>
>>> So I could certainly see
>>>
>>>      *.jpg binary
>>>      *.txt text
>>>
>>> making sense. But "eol" is certainly no better than "crlf".

Linus - Perhaps I missed this, but where would you this typemap exist?
I like this sort of prescriptive approach; out of the box users would
get a bunch of reasonable defaults, but they could customize it by
adding/changing them.