From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:07:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: Store autocrlf during init-db (was [msysGit] autocrlf problems with Git-preview20080301.exe)
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803231506000.4353@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.1.00.0803231428220.13789@cougar>

Hi,

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > The point is: if we use /etc/gitconfig, we also touch _existing_ 
> > setups (as Junio pointed out).  Which, in the case of autocrlf, is not 
> > desirable.
> 
> I proposed a mechanism that would avoid such problems in the future.

Yes, but your solution feels a bit limited and "hot-needled" for just one 
purpose.

> Maybe we can improve the installer to warn the users that the default 
> has changed and existing repositories must either be converted or the 
> global default must be overridden.  The installer could ask the user to 
> confirm this change.  Maybe this is sufficient to avoid further 
> complains about weird behavior after upgrading.

Maybe.  My experience is that people do not even read the big red warnings 
in the installer.  Whatever.

Ciao,
Dscho