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

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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).

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.

We might start with only binary/text attributes, but we may add
more later, e.g. chmod=o-rwx.  I do not see much differnece
between attributes vs filetypes.