Re: Unresolved issues

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 21, 2007, 00:39 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702210136050.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702201621050.4043@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > > No, that would be pretty horrid. So just tell everybody that it's based on 
> > > the working tree. I don't think it's likely to be a problem in practice.
> > 
> > Except for the initial checkout...
> 
> Yeah, that's true. That's indeed pretty nasty.

Um, I don't want to spoil the party, but was not the original idea of this auto-CRLF thing some sort of "emulation" of the CVS text checkout behaviour?

In that case, .gitattributes (I mean a tracked one) would be wrong, wrong, wrong.

It's a local setup if you want auto-CRLF or not. So, why not just make it a local setting (if in config or $GIT_DIR/info/gitattributes, I don't care) which shell patterns are to be transformed on input and/or output?

Ciao, Dscho