On Fri, 7 May 2010, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote: > > 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. So encouraging that as a format is just silly and stupid. In contrast, the slight change in semantics (with no new config options _or_ attributes) that I suggest should just make everybody happy - because it takes care of the real life situation that people are in. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html