Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

My proposal does require adding a file type to each file, as tracked
metadata, which may doom it from the start.

I'd rather do that a la .gitignore, i.e. make this handling dependent on 
file name patterns. It is not only backwards compatible (from the 
viewpoint of the repository format), it also avoids having to specify over 
and over again that yes, this new .odt file _is_ an OpenOffice document.

Then for each file type, we implement a set of interfaces (perhaps as
simple as a series of executables named git-<type>-<operation>) which
if present, transforms the file from its live format to the canonical
format which is actually checked in and back again.

Again, I propose a slight change: Let's add a transformation driver like 
the merge driver: this allows inlining common operations like unzipping, 
CRLF->LF conversion, etc.

Ciao,
Dscho