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

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Alexander Litvinov wrote:

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The only trouble is the rebase, it does not like \r\n ending and 
othen produce unexpected merge conflict. But I don't use rebse to 
othen to realy investigate and try to solve the problem.

Well, if everybody thinks like you, maybe we do not have to change 
anything for Windows after all?

No no no.

It's going to be _horrible_ if people start interesting projects in 
Windows, and there are files in a git repository that are encoded with 
CRLF.

I'd much rather just get this right, and that means "no hooks".

No hooks means something like cvsnt does, and that means no .gitattributes 
either. (BTW I really hate .gitattributes, as it does not at all say what 
this is about; it's about file _conversions_, not attributes).

CVSNT analyzes the files, and guesses if they are text, and only then 
activates the text mode.

I am strongly opposed to including something like that. (It was already 
proposed, and your "no hooks" suggests the same.)

However, I am slightly positive about the .gitfiletypes approach, _iff_ we 
think about more than just text/binary from the start. If we do it right, 
it will buy us more.

Ciao,
Dscho