From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:41:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Respect crlf attribute even if core.autocrlf has not been set
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807232040320.8986@racer>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4l4cs24.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> writes:
> 
> >> There are certain file formats, such as a Visual Studio .sln file, 
> >> that MUST be CRLF.  When a .sln file is not CRLF, Visual Studio 
> >> refuses to read it.  I want to be able to set into the committed 
> >> .gitattributes file the list of files that must be translated to the 
> >> proper format regardless of the autocrlf setting.  An example is 
> >> below:
> >> 
> >> *.bat crlf
> >...
> >> *.vcw crlf
> >
> > Wouldn't "*bat -crlf " etc be good for these, and thus store CRLF in 
> > the repo.
> 
> I'd agree.  And I do not think we would want to introduce "crlf=force" 
> that converts working tree files that could be LF terminated to CRLF 
> upon checking in.  That is as bad as some helpful editors that adds CR 
> at the end of line without being asked.

You can say that only because you are not in the situation having a lot of 
CR/LF files in your _public_ repository _in spite of_ setting the 
gitattributes correctly.

That seriously sucks.

Ciao,
Dscho