From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:24:55 GMT Subject: Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vps8f6l81.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I agree that we can assume editors can grok files with LF end-of-line > just fine and we would not need to do the reverse conversion on checkout > paths (e.g. "read-tree -u", "checkout-index"). In that case, a simple pre-commit hook would suffice. No, the problem mentioned by Mark was a very real one: you _cannot_ rely on Windows' editors not to fsck up with line endings. The worst case is if the file contains _some_ CRLF and _some _LF_. Almost always I had the problem that it now converted _all_ LFs to CRLFs. Even those which already were converted. So, if we are to support text mode, it is not one-way. If we do one-way, we really do _not_ support text mode, but pre-commit conversion to LF style text. And in this case, core git does not need _any_ change. Ciao, Dscho