From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:38:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Respect crlf attribute in "git add" even if core.autocrlf has not been set
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807241537000.8986@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080724140959.GU2925@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:06:29AM +0200, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> > 
> >   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.
> 
> I suspect that most problems with crlf is caused by Windows users who 
> have core.autocrlf=false for whatever reason (I suspect without a good 
> reason in most cases).

Almost correct.  It is _unset_!  And it should be perfectly valid for 
users not having to set anything there.

> But perhaps having core.autocrlf=input as default on Unix and Mac will 
> be better than the current core.autocrlf=false.

Have you read Junio's reply?  If so, how can you suggest any change for 
Unix and Mac?

Ciao,
Dscho