Improved autocrlf description in RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
From: Finn Arne Gangstad <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:04
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
--- I think RelNotes should be rewritten along these lines.. Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt | 11 +++++++---- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
index aa79f06..92f0da3 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft) Updates since v1.7.1 -------------------- - * core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control - the end of line conventions for files in the working tree; - core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by - default. - + * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control + the end of line conventions for files in the working tree. + + * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line + endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the + repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with + CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes. + * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff" gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with policy to indent only with spaces.
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1.7.2.rc1