Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 15:56 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702141653440.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <45D31C0E.2040206@verizon.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Mark Levedahl wrote:

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> This suggests to me a core.AutoCRLFstrategy variable that is a comma 
> separated list of methods to use (set to a reasonable default of course 
> that does not cause runtime headaches on Unix): a file would be deemed 
> binary unless all listed methods declare the file as text (with an empty 
> list disabling AutoCRLF detection).

This sounds regretfully complex. Somebody (you?) mentioned that cvsnt does a kick-ass job here. Does cvsnt need strategies? I don't think so. Neither do we. Someone who cares enough should just rip^H^H^Hlook at cvsnt's text detection.

Ciao, Dscho

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