Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: May 7, 2010, 21:23 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005071421340.901@i5.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <384AA932-227B-43B0-9D38-560A3567918A@gmail.com>

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:

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> I don't understand.  All you have to do is add "* auto-eol=true" to your 
> .gitattributes, and line endings will be normalized exactly as if you'd 
> set "core.autocrlf".  Why would you have to write totally new rules?  
> Which rules?

I think "* auto-eol=true" is just crazy. We would _never_ want to do that. Any project that does that should be shot in the head.

So encouraging that as a format is just silly and stupid.

In contrast, the slight change in semantics (with no new config options _or_ attributes) that I suggest should just make everybody happy - because it takes care of the real life situation that people are in.

		Linus