# what the text=auto docs should be

1 messages from 2014-02-16 to 2014-02-16. Participants: Cameron Taggart.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/35889

## Cameron Taggart, 2014-02-16 05:36

Subject: what the text=auto docs should be
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It would be better if the text=auto section of the gitattributes
Manual Page had this:

This ensures that all files that git considers to be the text will
have normalized (LF) line endings in the repository. If
core.autocrlf=true, core.eol will be used to normalize the files in
your working directory. core.eol defaults to native line endings for
your platform.

I researched and put my thoughts down in a blog post:
http://blog.ctaggart.com/2014/02/time-to-kill-carriage-return.html

cheers,
Cameron

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