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

On Jul 24, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:06:29AM +0200, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

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 I am the maintainer of this project.  I know that this project  
needs
 crlf conversion, because it is a cross-platform project.
 Therefore, I want to force crlf conversion for this specific
 project, even if the user did not configure core.autocrlf=input on
 Unix.

I suspect that most problems with crlf is caused by Windows users who
have core.autocrlf=false for whatever reason (I suspect without a  
good
reason in most cases).

Almost correct.  It is _unset_!  And it should be perfectly valid for
users not having to set anything there.

Why is it unset?  Since 1.5.5, our installer sets core.autocrlf=true
on Windows.  So we *do* set a sane default for Windows users.

In the projects I am using git, the problematic platform is *Unix*.
To work around the default on Unix (core.autocrlf=false), I deliver
a custom script to our developers that verifies the setup on Unix and
complains if core.autocrlf is not set to "input".  Since I do this,
I haven't seen any further problems.

	Steffen