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Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jan 11, 2008, 17:25 UTC
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On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
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> > 
> > No. What would it help?
> 
> You may later decide that you want to check out your project on Windows.
> In this case your repository should not contain CRLF.  autocrlf=input
> ensures this.

But under Unix, it would never do that *anyway*, unless the file for some reason really needs it (which I cannot imagine, but I've never seen anything so craptastically stupid that some crazy person hasn't done it)

So your argument is bogus.
		Linus
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