From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:39:48 GMT Subject: Re: Unresolved issues Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > > > 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