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Re: [PATCH] Respect crlf attribute in "git add" even if core.autocrlf has not been set

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 24, 2008, 12:39 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0807241334340.8986@racer>
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Hi,
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
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> Dscho,
> Is the following your use case?
> 
> "I am the maintainer of this project.  I know that this project needs
>  crlf conversion, because it is a cross-platform project.  Therefore,
>  I want to force crlf conversion for this specific project, even if
>  the user did not configure core.autocrlf=input on Unix."
No.

My use case is this: a few users work on Windows (Cygwin), others on MacOSX, yet others on Linux.

We often integrate files from somewhere else, and them Windows guys love to edit their files with their anachronistic proprietary crap tools that add CRs where CRs no belongee.

Also, the Windows guys (being Windows guys) cannot be bothered to read documentation, so they did not set autocrlf.

> Your patch provides a solution, though not a very comfortable one.  With
> your patch applied, you could explicitly list all files (or filetypes)
> that are text and mark them with 'crlf'.

Why should I want to do that? I do not _want_ CRs. And them Windows guys do not need them either; they are often not even aware that their crap tools introduce them.

> You could also specify 'crlf=input', but I don't understand why you want 
> to specify this.
That's what I do.  And _I_ need to understand why ;-)

Well, seems I will just continue shouting "why did you commit that CR-ridden file?" and get shouted back with "why does this §&%&%&!° Git tool not fix it for me automatically? Even _Subversion_ can do it."

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Respect crlf attribute even if core.autocrlf has not been setJohannes Schindelin, Jul 22, 2008
  2. Dmitry PotapovJul 22, 2008
  3. Johannes SchindelinJul 22, 2008
  4. Dmitry PotapovJul 23, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 23, 2008
  7. Respect crlf attribute in "git add" even if core.autocrlf has not been setJohannes Schindelin, Jul 23, 2008
  8. Steffen ProhaskaJul 23, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinJul 23, 2008
  10. Dmitry PotapovJul 23, 2008
  11. Steffen ProhaskaJul 24, 2008
  12. Johannes SchindelinJul 24, 2008
  13. Dmitry PotapovJul 24, 2008
  14. Dmitry PotapovJul 24, 2008
  15. Johannes SchindelinJul 24, 2008
  16. Steffen ProhaskaJul 24, 2008
  17. Avery PennarunJul 24, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinJul 24, 2008
  19. Robin RosenbergJul 24, 2008
  20. Johannes SchindelinJul 24, 2008
  21. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2008
  22. Johannes SchindelinJul 23, 2008
  23. Joshua JensenJul 23, 2008
  24. Avery PennarunJul 23, 2008
  25. Johannes SchindelinJul 23, 2008
  26. Eyvind BernhardsenJul 23, 2008
  27. Johannes SchindelinJul 23, 2008
  28. Eyvind BernhardsenJul 24, 2008
  29. Johannes SchindelinJul 25, 2008
  30. Eyvind BernhardsenJul 25, 2008
  31. Dmitry PotapovJul 25, 2008
  32. Eyvind BernhardsenJul 25, 2008
  33. Johannes SchindelinJul 26, 2008
  34. Eyvind BernhardsenJul 29, 2008
  35. Dmitry PotapovJul 29, 2008
  36. Eyvind BernhardsenJul 29, 2008
  37. Steffen ProhaskaJul 30, 2008
  38. Avery PennarunJul 30, 2008
  39. Steffen ProhaskaJul 30, 2008
  40. Avery PennarunJul 30, 2008
  41. Dmitry PotapovJul 30, 2008
  42. Avery PennarunJul 30, 2008
  43. TarmiganAug 3, 2008
  44. Dmitry PotapovAug 3, 2008
  45. TarmiganAug 3, 2008
  46. Dmitry PotapovAug 4, 2008
  47. Dmitry PotapovJul 30, 2008
  48. Eyvind BernhardsenAug 2, 2008
  49. Dmitry PotapovAug 3, 2008
  50. Robin RosenbergJul 23, 2008
  51. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2008
  52. Johannes SchindelinJul 23, 2008
  53. Dmitry PotapovJul 23, 2008
  54. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2008
  55. Johannes SchindelinJul 23, 2008
  56. Dmitry PotapovJul 24, 2008
  57. Johannes SchindelinJul 24, 2008
  58. Dmitry PotapovJul 24, 2008

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