Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

On Jan 8, 2008 5:56 AM, Peter Karlsson [off-list ref] wrote:

Thomas Neumann:

quoted

as a user, I expect a SCM to only modify a file when I have
explicitly asked it to do so.

As a user, I exepect things to just work. With RCS/CVS/Subversion, it
does, because it differentiates between text files (internally encoding
NLs with "LF", but I couldn't care less what it uses there) and binary
files (which it doesn't change). With git it currently doesn't since it
treats everything as binary files.

Actually, Subversion does the Right Thing, and treats everything as a
binary file until and unless you explicitly set the svn:eol-style
property on each file that you want it to mangle.

Maybe you set up Subversion auto-props and forgot about it? That would
be almost (but not really) like setting autocrlf=true in your global
git config.

Peter Harris