On Aug 13, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
Steffen Prohaska said the following on 13.08.2007 08:50:
On Aug 13, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
In msysgit.git/etc/.gitattributes we have 'termcap -crlf', to
avoid the termcaps being checked out with Windows EOL, if the
user happens to have 'autocrlf = true'. However, when you
checkout the working dir the first time it still has Windows EOL
due to exactly this problem.
And exactly this is where I recognized the issue.
msysgit devs,
We should really make autocrlf = true the default for us and fix
all problems that we'll encounter. There may be more tricky stuff
ahead, like merges, cherry-picks, ...
I'm more leaning towards having the installer give you the option
to choose what kind of line-endings you want Git to work with; just
like the Cygwin installer.
Which is the root of much trouble with Cygwin. People now say,
git works perfectly in Cygwin but forget to mention that they
mean Cygwin A (in binmode) but not Cygwin B (in textmode).
Better choose the right default and work hard to make the
default choice work perfectly. I am strongly against an option
in the installer. An option _will_ cause confusion. Better give
people a hint how they can override the default for a single
user, or for a single repo. Then they recognize that they move
to a non-default configuration and hopefully think twice. And we
never need to talk about msysgit A vs. msysgit B, but only about
msysgit with repo specific or user specific options.
For me, the question comes down to the following: What would the
average Windows user (real Windows user, not Linux user who was
forced to work in Cygwin!) expect git to do with line endings?
The answer to this question should be the default.
Steffen
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