Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:59:50PM -0500, Mark Levedahl wrote:

> fail to set the correct file type somewhere. Current cvsnt is fairly 
> good at autodetecting and setting text vs binary file type, and enforces 
> this across all platforms, so things don't go awry too often. It is in 

There is obviously much sentiment that this should _not_ be the default
(and I agree). But if arbitrary filters are possible, then you can
theoretically write an 'autocrlf' filter which will try to do the right
thing, and you could set it for some or all files:

  echo '*: autocrlf' >.gitattributes

but it would be off by default. If we implement this, everyone has to
"pay" for .gitattributes (even if you don't use it, we have to look it
up to make sure you're not using it!), but nobody has to pay for any
filters they don't use.

-Peff