Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization
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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
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- May 7, 2010, 21:30 UTC
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On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 7 May 2010, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote: >> I don't understand. All you have to do is add "* auto-eol=true" to your >> .gitattributes, and line endings will be normalized exactly as if you'd >> set "core.autocrlf". Why would you have to write totally new rules? >> Which rules? > > I think "* auto-eol=true" is just crazy. We would _never_ want to do that. > Any project that does that should be shot in the head.
In the interests of further making myself look like an idiot:
Just to clarify, is it crazy because that line would convert all files, even binary ones, where core.autocrlf auto-detects whether files are binary or text?
Avery