Re: msysgit: should core.autocrlf=true be the default on Windows?

From: Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 12, 2007, 10:36 UTC
Message-ID: <a1bbc6950708120336p61c7f10fw8d2d43ee7f5a924c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <F5024D9F-B008-4C14-B36B-A2E8BEFD0FE4@zib.de>

I'll be short.

On 8/12/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:

> > Please keep in mind that msysgit is targeting developers who want
> > to contribute to MinGW port of git.
> Why that?. In my opinion msysgit is already the best git you can
> get on Windows.

End-user version could be made MUCH smaller.

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> > On the other hand, setup for end-users should have it as default, I
> > agree.
>
> But our end-users are developers! We should leverage on that and make
> msysgit the 'end-user' installation. Developers tend to be interested
> in fixing problems with their working environment. We should provide
> them a _very_ easy way of submitting their fixes and improvements
> back to msysgit, e.g. via mob branch. This could speed up the Windows
> porting effort tremendously.

I agree. That's why msysgit was created. On the other hand, for many user Git is just a tool that they use to accomplish something important for them (completely unrelated to git). That's why end-user installer exists as well.

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- Dmitry