On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. In the interests of further making myself look like an idiot: Just to clarify, is it crazy because that line would convert all files, even binary ones, where core.autocrlf auto-detects whether files are binary or text? Avery -- 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