Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin-mmb7mzphnfy@public.gmane.org>
Date: Jan 9, 2008, 20:50 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801092047190.31053@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vmyrehhkd.fsf-jO8aZxhGsIagbBziECNbOZn29agUkmeCHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > Junio wrote:
> >
> >> Perhaps we can do something similar to core.filemode?  Create a file 
> >> that we would need to create anyway in "text" mode, and read it back 
> >> in "binary" mode to see what stdio did?
> >
> > The problem is that MinGW behaves sanely, i.e. it does not output CRLF 
> > but only LF.
> 
> Won't that behaviour be viewed rather as "insanely" from majority of 
> Windows users?

I think the truth is that CRLF was a mistake. Nobody wants to take the blame for it, obviously, but more and more Windows tools just grok LF-only text.

The question is: what to do with those that cannot grok LF-only text. I imagine that the best compromise for now would be to have crlf=true, with poor souls like Steffen having to set the gitattributes accordingly.

Ciao, Dscho