From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:25:52 GMT
Subject: Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801110924380.3148@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <D36EB89D-11A3-4EAF-BC1C-6100383FCBFC@zib.de>



On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> > 
> > 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