From: Avery Pennarun Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 21:30:20 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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