On 23/11/15 17:05, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > On 22.11.15 09:20, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: >> On 21.11.2015 08:36, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: >> >>> git ls-files --eol gives an output like this: >>> >>> i/text-no-eol w/text-no-eol attr/text=auto t/t5100/empty >> >> I'm sorry if this has been discussed before, but hav you considered to use a header line and omit the prefixed from the columns instead? Like >> >> index working tree attributes file >> >> binary binary -text t/test-binary-2.png >> text-lf text-lf eol=lf t/t5100/rfc2047-info-0007 >> text-lf text-crlf eol=crlf doit.bat >> text-crlf-lf text-crlf-lf locale/XX.po >> >> I believe this would be both easier to read for humans, and easier to parse for scripts that e.g. want to compare line endings in the index and working tree. >> > The problem I see is to make sure that there is always a separator, even when a field empty: > > rm zlib.c; git ls-file --eol #will include a line like this: > i/text-lf w/ attr/ zlib.c > > or, as another example: > git ls-files -o --eol > i/ w/binary attr/ zlib.o > [I have been trying *not* to respond to this thread, since the following comment is classic bikeshedding on the naming of things and I am, in general, hopeless at naming things ... :-D ] <bikeshedding> I don't think you need to include 'text' in the name of the line ending descriptors - if its not binary then its some form of text. So, maybe something like: binary none lf crlf mixed </bikeshedding> HTH ATB, Ramsay Jones -- 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