Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization

From: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Date: May 7, 2010, 19:23 UTC
Message-ID: <D735B346-968F-4AAE-8990-27ECCCA812AF@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <n2k32541b131005071211sb2411334v4f0919abfeb4cbb7@mail.gmail.com>

On 7. mai 2010, at 21.11, Avery Pennarun wrote:

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> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> Btw, another option might be to start searching ".gitconfig", but only
>> allow a certain "safe subset" of config options in that. Things that can
>> really be about the project itself, and not per-user or per-repository.
>> [...]
>> Things like
>> 
>>        core.autocrlf
>>        i18n.commitEnconfig
> 
> Unfortunately this option wouldn't be as flexible as Eyvind's current proposal.

Thanks for the support!

My objection to this idea is more practical: I suspect that parsing .gitconfig from the repository would be a lot more work than my simple hack :)

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Eyvind