On Aug 12, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
Please keep in mind that msysgit is targeting developers who want
to contribute to MinGW port of git.
Why that?. In my opinion msysgit is already the best git you can
get on Windows. It's a one click, self-contained installation,
with the most up-to-date git. The installation is kept separate
from cygwin, which saves a lot of trouble with textmode/binmode.
It's easy to get started, easy to contribute fixes, easy to upgrade
to a new version. It should be polished a bit, but then I would
announce it as _the_ default way of installing git on Windows.
Since building and editing happens in MinGW environment the LF-only
default seems reasonable.
I have my msysgit set to autocrlf=true and have no problems.
It's even better now, because I can open files in Windows
programs without problems.
On the other hand, setup for end-users should have it as default, I
agree.
But our end-users are developers! We should leverage on that and make
msysgit the 'end-user' installation. Developers tend to be interested
in fixing problems with their working environment. We should provide
them a _very_ easy way of submitting their fixes and improvements
back to msysgit, e.g. via mob branch. This could speed up the Windows
porting effort tremendously.
I also think we should work in the same environment that we propose
to our end-users. If we believe end-users should work with
autocrlf=true,
we should do so as well, just to be sure that our recommendation is
the right one.
Please report this issue here: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
issues/list
done.
Steffen
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