Re: Per file configurable eol-style transformations with Git?

"Alexander Veit" [off-list ref] writes:

we have projects that contain text files that need to
have different end-of-line sequences, depending on the
type of file, and depending on the operating system where
they are checked out.

There are files that have

 - LF line breaks on each platform,
 - CR LF line breaks on each platform, or
 - either LF or CR LF line breaks, depending on the
   platform's native end-of-line style.

With Subversion, the correct behaviour in checkouts, commits,
diffs, or merges can easily be achieved by setting the appropriate
svn:eol-style [*].

As I understand the Git documentation there's no such concept as a
repository end-of-line style, or as an end-of-line transformation
between repository and working copy.

So I wonder if it is possible to mimic Subversion's end-of-line handling
with Git, especially for the svn:eol-style=native.

See `crlf` attribute, which can be set, unset, unspecified, set to
"input", and used together with core.autocrlf ("true", "false", "input")
and core.safecrlf.  Attributes can be set per path (using globbing
patterns) in .gitattributes file in tree, or in .git/info/attributes
(per repository).

HTH
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git