From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:01:56 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Respect crlf attribute even if core.autocrlf has not been set Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3B9933A6-9637-41AE-9133-9B6EA9204E6B@orakel.ntnu.no> Hi, On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote: > On 23. juli. 2008, at 21.44, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > [...] > > >I deem it not, uhm, magical. By your reasoning there should be a way > >for Git to convert a file to UTF-8 when some entertaining person > >converted the working directory file to ISO-8859-15. > > Um, what? This discussion is about figuring out when Git should mess > with the line endings a user is trying to commit. This discusion is about when Git should mess with _content_ at all. It is not limited to line endings. Ciao, Dscho "who personally could not care less about CR if it was not for M$' stupidity"