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

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:

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?

I think "* auto-eol=true" is just crazy. We would _never_ want to do that. 
Any project that does that should be shot in the head.

So encouraging that as a format is just silly and stupid.

In contrast, the slight change in semantics (with no new config options 
_or_ attributes) that I suggest should just make everybody happy - because 
it takes care of the real life situation that people are in.

		Linus