Will PalmerThe description for core.autocrlf refers to reads from / writes to "the filesystem", the only use of this rather ambiguous term, which technically could be referring to the git object database. (All other mentions are part of phrases such as "..filesystems (like NFS)..").
Other sections, including the section on core.safecrlf, use the term "work tree" for the same purpose as the term "the filesystem" is used in the core.autocrlf section, so that seems like a good alternative, which makes it clearer what direction the addition/removal of CR characters occurs in.
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 626b19a..b2a4a92 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -198,11 +198,11 @@ core.quotepath:: core.autocrlf:: If true, makes git convert `CRLF` at the end of lines in text files to - `LF` when reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when - writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to + `LF` when reading from the work tree, and convert in reverse when + writing to the work tree. The variable can be set to 'input', in which case the conversion happens only while - reading from the filesystem but files are written out with - `LF` at the end of lines. A file is considered + reading from the work tree but files are written out to the work + tree with `LF` at the end of lines. A file is considered "text" (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) based on the file's `crlf` attribute, or if `crlf` is unspecified, based on the file's contents. See linkgit:gitattributes[5].
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