Re: [msysGit] Re: Store autocrlf during init-db (was [msysGit] autocrlf problems with Git-preview20080301.exe)

Hi,

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

The point is: if we use /etc/gitconfig, we also touch _existing_ 
setups (as Junio pointed out).  Which, in the case of autocrlf, is not 
desirable.

I proposed a mechanism that would avoid such problems in the future.

Yes, but your solution feels a bit limited and "hot-needled" for just one 
purpose.

Maybe we can improve the installer to warn the users that the default 
has changed and existing repositories must either be converted or the 
global default must be overridden.  The installer could ask the user to 
confirm this change.  Maybe this is sufficient to avoid further 
complains about weird behavior after upgrading.

Maybe.  My experience is that people do not even read the big red warnings 
in the installer.  Whatever.

Ciao,
Dscho