Re: [PATCH 3/4] gitfaq: give advice on using eol attribute in gitattributes

> On 2021-10-20 at 01:21:40, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 9:06 PM brian m. carlson
> > <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
> >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
> > > @@ -464,14 +465,25 @@ references, URLs, and hashes stored in the repository.
> > > +With text files, Git will generally the repository contains LF endings in the
> > > +repository, and will honor `core.autocrlf` and `core.eol` to decide what options
> > > +to use when checking files out.  You can also override this by specifying a
> > > +particular line ending such as `eol=lf` or `eol=crlf` if those files must always
> > > +have that ending (e.g., for functionality reasons).
> >
> > The first sentence in the paragraph is unparseable.
>
> Yes, I think perhaps I omitted the word "ensure".
>
> And I should reflect that they should have that ending in the working
> tree, which I neglected to mention.