Re: core.autocrlf considered half-assed

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 9, 2010, 09:29 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1003091028440.7596@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20100309072412.GF31105@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 12:29:01PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > Easiest example:
> > 
> > $ git clone -n git://repo.or.cz/git.git html-docs
> > $ cd html-docs/
> > $ git config core.autocrlf true
> > $ git checkout -t origin/html
> > $ git status
> 
> As Junio explained in another mail, it was intentional to have all HTML 
> files with CRLF, because they are supposed to have that ending on all 
> platforms. What is missing, however, is .gitattributes, which would tell 
> to Git that we do not want to autocrlf conversion for HTML files.

That is just papering over the real culprit: Git checks something out. This should be clean. But then Git says it is not.

Ciao, Dscho