Re: core.autocrlf considered half-assed

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 12:29:01PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Easiest example:

$ git clone -n git://repo.or.cz/git.git html-docs
$ cd html-docs/
$ git config core.autocrlf true
$ git checkout -t origin/html
$ git status

As Junio explained in another mail, it was intentional to have all HTML
files with CRLF, because they are supposed to have that ending on all
platforms. What is missing, however, is .gitattributes, which would tell
to Git that we do not want to autocrlf conversion for HTML files. This
can be done by adding .gitattributes:

$ cat >> .gitattributes <<EOF
*.html -crlf
EOF

I've just noticed that user-manual.html differs from other HTML files in
that it uses LF ending. I think it is a mistake, and this file should be
converted to have CRLF, but if you want to have all HTML files except
user-manual.html to have CRLF then you can do that too:

$ cat > .gitattributes <<EOF
*.html -crlf
user-manual.html crlf
EOF

I hope Junio will add the right version of .gitattributes, so users with
autocrlf=true will not suffer.


Dmitry