Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

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> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> writes:
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>> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 07:58:57PM +0100, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I don't think a solution will be found by declaring one platform
>>> native (UNIX) and all other platform non-native.  The question to
>>> answer is how to support cross-platform projects.  A valid
>>> solution should never corrupt data unless the user explicitly
>>> told git to do so.
>>
>> My only suggestion is that we consider allowing the user that
>> "explicitly told git to do so" be the project maintainer.  So if you
>>
>> 	echo * autodetectcrlf >.gitattributes
>> 	git add .gitattributes
>> 	git commit
>>
>> then users that clone your repo will get that default without  
>> having to
>> be told to do something magic on clone.
>>
>> (And ideally I'd've hoped you could do that using the existing crlf
>> attribute rather than having to invent something new, but maybe that
>> doesn't work.)
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> I think the project can mark text files as text with attributes
> and if the port to the platform initialized core.autocrlf
> appropriately for the platform everything should work as you
> described.
>
> At least that is how I read the description of `crlf` in
> gitattributes(5).