Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 7, 2008, 21:18 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801072115120.10101@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <200801072203.23938.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Hi,

[msysGit Cc'ed, since it is massively concerned by this thread]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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> måndagen den 7 januari 2008 skrev du:
> > Problem.  There is not a single "right".  It really depends on the 
> > project.
> 
> Indeed, but the most common SCM's detect binary files automatically, 
> either by suffix or content analysis, so I think that is what user's 
> expect. It will be right for more projects that the current behaviour.

Steffen also fought for turning this on by default, but so far I resisted. For a good reason: the primary user of msysGit for the moment is... msysGit. And this project does not need CR for obvious reasons.

But I imagine that it makes sense for the Git installers. Colour me no-longer-resisting.

Ciao, Dscho