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

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > (Which means that I suspect I made the default for "auto_crlf" be wrong in 
> > my patch: I probably should not default to checking out with CRLF, but 
> > checking out with just LF, and only do the CRLF->LF conversion on input).
>
> Expect that it seems a few br0ken programs yet does not support LF as
> end-of-line marker - so .gitattriutes make take special care here.

Yes, but I also think that even without .gitattributes, you just want to 
have a default for what "text" actually means, and it's entirely possible 
that the default should be: "check out with just LF, and on check-in turn 
CRLF into LF".

But exactly because _some_ programs might want to always see CRLF on input 
too, it should be overridable. 

Or maybe the default should be "turn into CRLF", and there should just be 
an option to make it check out as LF-only.

Regardless, I think that is independent of ".gitattributes". The 
_attribute_ should be "text", but what it then means in practice is a 
separate flag.

And yes, we *could* have a per-file attribute ("text,crlf-checkout") which 
could be used to say "I want to always check out as crlf regardless of any 
other policy") and the same for lf-only, but I seriously doubt that 
anybody really needs that kind of knob-tweaking. At some point it's just 
fine to say "you're crazy".

			Linus