From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:39:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: Store autocrlf during init-db (was [msysGit] autocrlf problems with Git-preview20080301.exe)
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803240038180.4353@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.1.00.0803232237400.19285@cougar>

Hi,

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> My patch does not set the default in git-init, but only stores the
> current choice of autocrlf in the repository's config.  autocrlf is
> special because it cannot be easily changed after the initial checkout.

But basically all clean/smudge filters have exactly the same problem!  And 
core.ignorecase, too!

There must be a way to do it elegantly, without catering just for 
autocrlf.

Ciao,
Dscho