From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:30:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Store autocrlf during init-db (was [msysGit] autocrlf problems with Git-preview20080301.exe)
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.1.00.0803231326290.11994@cougar>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803231200010.4353@racer.site>


On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > Setting autocrlf for every repository limits the user's options to
> > override the default.
> 
> Then maybe a way for the user to override the global templates is what we 
> need?  I can see that this would be useful outside of the crlf issue.

I do not think we need this.  autocrlf is a configurable variable and we
already have a mechanism for the user to override configuration
variables.  The user can use "git config --global ..." to sets his
preferences.  This mechanism is well established.  I do not see a reason
not to use it.

            Steffen