Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] CRLF: unify the "auto" handling

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 1, 2016, 22:25 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa8ldge68.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1459526909-19946-1-git-send-email-tboegi@web.de>

tboegi@web.de writes:

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> From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
>
> Make .gitattributes "* text=auto eol=crlf" to do the same as
> setting core.autocrlf=true and "* text=auto eol=crlf" the same
> as core.autocrlf=input

"Earlier we didn't do so and instead did X, which was not great because it caused symptom Y and Z"

would be necessary for future readers to understand why the above change is a good idea.

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