Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 8, 2008, 11:52 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801081151450.10101@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801081150010.25629@ds9.cixit.se>

Hi,

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Peter Karlsson wrote:

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> Thomas Neumann:
> 
> > as a user, I expect a SCM to only modify a file when I have
> > explicitly asked it to do so.
> 
> As a user, I exepect things to just work. With RCS/CVS/Subversion, it 
> does, because it differentiates between text files (internally encoding 
> NLs with "LF", but I couldn't care less what it uses there) and binary 
> files (which it doesn't change). With git it currently doesn't since it 
> treats everything as binary files.

<tongue-in-cheek>Hey, if Subversion does what you want, why not just use it?</tongue-in-cheek>

Ciao, Dscho

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