From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:21:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Define a few built-in attribute rules.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704151819390.18846@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xcu5ps7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> [...] if we really wanted to, we could introduce a way to explicitly say 
> "Even if the contents do not look like text, apply line ending 
> conversion, always", by redefining the meaning of 'crlf' attribute.

I think it might make more sense to introduce a way to say "do not even 
check; I _know_ that I want crlf on these".

It might show performance improvements on large repos, for example.

Ciao,
Dscho