From: Cameron Taggart <cameron.taggart@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 05:36:50 GMT
Subject: what the text=auto docs should be
Message-ID: <CAABik=swf_FLpnKOxehbfxu+pEx2wN7Tnw+=VQRAp2_DMR0+nQ@mail.gmail.com>

It would be better if the text=auto section of the gitattributes
Manual Page had this:

This ensures that all files that git considers to be the text will
have normalized (LF) line endings in the repository. If
core.autocrlf=true, core.eol will be used to normalize the files in
your working directory. core.eol defaults to native line endings for
your platform.

I researched and put my thoughts down in a blog post:
http://blog.ctaggart.com/2014/02/time-to-kill-carriage-return.html

cheers,
Cameron