From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:50:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Store autocrlf during init-db (was [msysGit] autocrlf problems with Git-preview20080301.exe)
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.1.00.0803231643040.16879@cougar>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803231506000.4353@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:
> > 
> > > 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)?

            Steffen