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

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:

quoted

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.

In the interests of further making myself look like an idiot:

Just to clarify, is it crazy because that line would convert all
files, even binary ones, where core.autocrlf auto-detects whether
files are binary or text?

Avery