From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 20:06:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization
Message-ID: <t2g32541b131005071306v580560c4gb524e9456604298d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100507194140.GC7963@pvv.org>

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org> wrote:
> Maybe it is sufficient to add a new value to "crlf" that means:
>
> - If the file is autodetected as text:
>  - Convert to LF only on commit, and
>  - Convert to your preferred EOL style on checkout.
>
> I don't think autocrlf is a good place to specify preferred EOL
> style, it is too dangerous to set autocrlf to true by default, but it should
> not be dangerous to say that your preferred EOL style is CRLF.

Assuming it's updated to reuse the existing crlf attribute instead of
adding a new one, that seems to be exactly what this patch series is
about.  "Your preferred EOL style" is the newly introduced
core.eolStyle config option.  So... good idea :)

Have fun,

Avery