From: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind-git@orakel.ntnu.no>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:20:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Respect crlf attribute even if core.autocrlf has not been set
Message-ID: <FB7ABDC5-8505-4FD1-8082-9BB5013E73C6@orakel.ntnu.no>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807231956280.8986@racer>

On 23. juli. 2008, at 20.57, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>
>> 1. always CRLF on all platforms (eg. for .bat files)
>> 2. always LF on all platforms (eg. for shell scripts and perl  
>> scripts)
>> 3. just leave it alone no matter what (eg. for binary files)
>
> These are not different, but equal.  "Do no harm to the contents of  
> this
> file".

That is only true until someone edits the file in an editor which  
prefers the wrong end-of-line marker, and converts to it when saving.   
It will be obvious that this has happened if the user does a "git  
diff" before committing, but I think the intent of nos. 1 and 2 is for  
git to automatically convert the line endings back instead of kicking  
up a fuss.

Might be too magical, though.

Eyvind Bernhardsen