Re: Store autocrlf during init-db (was [msysGit] autocrlf problems with Git-preview20080301.exe)

> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
> > > 
> > > >> I suppose autocrlf enabled by default could be useful for new 
> > > >> repositories, but not for working with existing repositories.
> > > >
> > > > We changed the global default to a sane setting for cross-platform 
> > > > projects to avoid such problems in the future.  This means that 
> > > > from now on git will take care that any repository newly created 
> > > > will have sane line endings (LF in the repository; and CRLF in the 
> > > > work tree if checked out on Windows respectively LF if checked out 
> > > > on Unix).
> > > 
> > > I've always wondered why you guys used /etc/gitconfig instead of 
> > > setting it in the templates (or a patch to git-init).
> > > 
> > > I was against the idea of /etc/gitconfig from the very beginning 
> > > (even before msysgit existed) in git.git itself, but this is a very 
> > > good example why /etc/gitconfig is a bad idea.  It affects 
> > > _existing_ setups.
> > > 
> > > How about fixing msys port so that it sets the configuration when 
> > > the user initializes a _new_ repository, without breaking 
> > > repositories the user has been happily using?
> > 
> > Makes sense.
> 
> Hmm.  I am not convinced.
> 
> Setting autocrlf for every repository limits the user's options to
> override the default.