From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:35:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Store autocrlf during init-db (was [msysGit] autocrlf problems with Git-preview20080301.exe)
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803231734190.4353@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.1.00.0803231643040.16879@cougar>


Hi,

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> What limits do you mean (except that it does still break existing 
> msysgit setups; but would avoid this problem in the future)?

I have the impression that a problem just like this will arise again, just 
not with corelf, but with another setting that the admin might want to 
set per default in git-init, but the user might want to override.

Ciao,
Dscho