Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization

On 7. mai 2010, at 22.57, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:

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How can you say that this is simpler than my syntax?

Because your syntax adds totally new attributes, so now you can't even 
take an existing .gitattributes and make it do something sane - instead 
you have to write totally new rules.

I don't understand.  All you have to do is add "* auto-eol=true" to your .gitattributes, and line endings will be normalized exactly as if you'd set "core.autocrlf".  Why would you have to write totally new rules?  Which rules?

My suggestion just makes any existing usage do the "what you'd expect".

THAT is simpler.

Well, sort of, but "simple for someone who already knows how core.autocrlf works" isn't what I'm aiming for :)
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Eyvind