From: Eyvind Bernhardsen Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 21:37:20 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 7. mai 2010, at 23.30, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> On Fri, 7 May 2010, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote: >>> I don't understand. All you have to do is add "* auto-eol=true" >>> to your >>> .gitattributes, and line endings will be normalized exactly as if >>> you'd >>> set "core.autocrlf". Why would you have to write totally new rules? >>> Which rules? >> >> I think "* auto-eol=true" is just crazy. We would _never_ want to >> do that. >> Any project that does that should be shot in the head. > > In the interests of further making myself look like an idiot: > > Just to clarify, is it crazy because that line would convert all > files, even binary ones, where core.autocrlf auto-detects whether > files are binary or text? Just to clarify a bit more, that is _not_ what it would do. The "crlf" attribute is still respected, of course. Also, I meant to write "* crlf=auto", not "* auto-eol=true", if that makes it any less crazy. -- Eyvind