Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 8, 2008, 11:54 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801081152360.10101@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20080108110757.GB18087@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:56:00AM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> 
> > If I occasionally need to do a
> > 
> >  git add -kb binary.txt
> > 
> > to flag a file explicitely, that's a small price to pay for everything 
> > else to work out of the box.
> 
> For you, perhaps, since you apparently infrequently commit binary files 
> and derive some benefit from CRLF conversion. But please bear in mind 
> that there are people on the other end of the spectrum who want the 
> opposite (i.e., who could care less about CRLF, but _do_ have binary 
> files).

Do not forget the people who say that git is a content tracker (as opposed to a content munger). Git was really intended as a tracker of octet strings which are organised in tree structures, and where you can have revisions over those tree structures.

That is the beauty of git: it keeps simple things simple. Now, for some, this is a curse ;-)

Ciao, Dscho