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

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Hi,

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > No hooks means something like cvsnt does, and that means no .gitattributes 
> > either. (BTW I really hate .gitattributes, as it does not at all say what 
> > this is about; it's about file _conversions_, not attributes).
> 
> No, it *is* about attributes.
> 
> In order to know how to convert, you need to know the attributes of the 
> file.
> 
> So it's not about conversion: we would ALWAYS do conversion. It's about 
> the fact that in order to do the conversion, we need to know what the 
> attributes of the file is - is it text, or what.
> 
> And the equal point is that there are _other_ attributes that git might 
> care about. The "merge strategy" attribute, for example. Or "owner" 
> attributes for files etc.

Yes, you're right. Colour me converted (pun intended).

Ciao,
Dscho

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