Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes: > The standard advice for text file eol endings in the .gitattributes file > was updated in e28eae3184 (gitattributes: Document the unified "auto" > handling, 2016-08-26) with a recent clarification in 8c591dbfce (docs: > correct documentation about eol attribute, 2022-01-11), with a follow > up comment by the original author in [1] confirming the use of the eol > attribute in conjunction with the text attribute. > > Update Git's .gitattributes file to reflect our own advice. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=%3C20220216115239.uo2ie3flaqo3nf2d%40tb-raspi4%3E. > > Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> > --- > > I was catching up on last year's back emails, and had saved those on > eol and text conversion, and was prompted by Torsten's [1] to check > my .gitattribute files, only to discover, we aren't providing a good > example to others. Let's fix that. Thanks. Let's keep this single step as a pure "no, eol=lf alone is not how we recommend you to mark a text file, and here is the fix" change. There may be other things people might want to do on top of this change, but they can be done on top. Will queue. Thanks. > > > .gitattributes | 22 +++++++++++----------- > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes > index b0044cf272..158c3d45c4 100644 > --- a/.gitattributes > +++ b/.gitattributes > @@ -1,17 +1,17 @@ > * whitespace=!indent,trail,space > *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp > -*.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space eol=lf > -*.perl eol=lf diff=perl > -*.pl eof=lf diff=perl > -*.pm eol=lf diff=perl > -*.py eol=lf diff=python > -*.bat eol=crlf > +*.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space text eol=lf > +*.perl text eol=lf diff=perl > +*.pl text eof=lf diff=perl > +*.pm text eol=lf diff=perl > +*.py text eol=lf diff=python > +*.bat text eol=crlf > CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md -whitespace > -/Documentation/**/*.txt eol=lf > -/command-list.txt eol=lf > -/GIT-VERSION-GEN eol=lf > -/mergetools/* eol=lf > -/t/oid-info/* eol=lf > +/Documentation/**/*.txt text eol=lf > +/command-list.txt text eol=lf > +/GIT-VERSION-GEN text eol=lf > +/mergetools/* text eol=lf > +/t/oid-info/* text eol=lf > /Documentation/git-merge.txt conflict-marker-size=32 > /Documentation/gitk.txt conflict-marker-size=32 > /Documentation/user-manual.txt conflict-marker-size=32
