Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

On Jan 9, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Peter Karlsson wrote:

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Linus Torvalds:

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So defaulting to (or asking) "autocrlf" at install time is probably
the safest thing, and then people can edit their global .gitconfig to
turn it off.

Indeed. A checkbox in the Windows installer (like Cygwin has) would be
nice.

No.  There are different needs for different projects, and having
different defaults just adds to the confusion.

I am no longer opposed to setting crlf=true by default for Git (although
this does not necessarily hold true for msysGit, but that could be
helped by explicitely unsetting crlf for the repositories we check out
with the netinstaller).

I'll further think about "crlf=safe" (see another mail in this
thread). I like the idea of safe because it guarantees that data
will never be corrupted.  But I have no time to think about it
immediately.

	Steffen