# Re: osx autocrlf sanity?

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2020-06-10 17:06:40 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2020/06/7849040
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2020/06/7849040/t.md

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Torsten Bögershausen [ref] writes:

> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 07:31:23PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> good question! There is a .gitattributes file, all the files affected
>> have these attributes
>>
>> *.py     text diff=python
>
> That is the important information, that we need.
> Since there is a .gitattributes file, (wich is good),
> you can forget about core.autocrlf (at least for all python files).
> (That should be clear from the documentation of Git,
>  but it could be, that we can make things more clear).

So a "text" attribute trumps the settings of autocrlf?  That makes
it sound like ...

> There is only one way out of this dilemma:
> renormalize the line endings in the repo (and live a happier life ;-)

... there is another way out, which is to drop "text" attribute?
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