Re: [PATCH] Respect crlf attribute even if core.autocrlf has not been set

On 23. juli. 2008, at 20.57, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote:

quoted

1. always CRLF on all platforms (eg. for .bat files)
2. always LF on all platforms (eg. for shell scripts and perl  
scripts)
3. just leave it alone no matter what (eg. for binary files)

These are not different, but equal.  "Do no harm to the contents of  
this
file".

That is only true until someone edits the file in an editor which  
prefers the wrong end-of-line marker, and converts to it when saving.   
It will be obvious that this has happened if the user does a "git  
diff" before committing, but I think the intent of nos. 1 and 2 is for  
git to automatically convert the line endings back instead of kicking  
up a fuss.

Might be too magical, though.

Eyvind Bernhardsen