Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 9, 2008, 10:56 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801091054400.31053@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0801082226110.21686@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>

Hi,

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Peter Karlsson wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds:
> 
> > So defaulting to (or asking) "autocrlf" at install time is probably 
> > the safest thing, and then people can edit their global .gitconfig to 
> > turn it off.
> 
> Indeed. A checkbox in the Windows installer (like Cygwin has) would be 
> nice.

No. There are different needs for different projects, and having different defaults just adds to the confusion.

I am no longer opposed to setting crlf=true by default for Git (although this does not necessarily hold true for msysGit, but that could be helped by explicitely unsetting crlf for the repositories we check out with the netinstaller).

Ciao, Dscho

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