On Fri, 7 May 2010, hasen j wrote: > > > > The only reason to ever support 'lf' is > > if you're a total moron of a SCM, and you save files you know are text in > > CRLF format internally. That's just f*cking stupid. > > > > What if: > > - The entire history of the file is stored in CRLF > - It's a windows-only file where the official "tool" that reads it > barfs on LF line endings. > - Third party tools also expect (or at least, handle) CRLF line endings. Umm. Then it's not text, is it? What you are describing is a binary file that happens to look like text with CRLF. If it's _text_, then you import it as such, and set crlf=true so that it gets checked out with crlf. 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