On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> This whole auto CRLF things seems to deal with DOS issues that I personally
> have not encountered since looong time ago.
Maybe you stopped using DOS a loong time ago ;)
It's definitely an issue. Yes, all windows programs basically *understand*
files that have just LF. But almost all of them will *write* files with
CRLF.
(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).
Anybody who has ever worked with _any_ Windows people have long since
learnt that they always end up having to convert CRLF to just LF when they
get files. Even _I_ know it, and I seldom have to work with people who use
Windows ;)
So it's a good idea to try to make sure that Windows users don't corrupt
files by adding CRLF where there is no need for them into a git archive.
We hope to convert those people to a real OS some day ("here's a nickel,
boy"), and to make it easier for them to do it, making sure that their
projects in -git are already in a sane format is probably a good idea.
Linus
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