Hi, On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > The point is: if we use /etc/gitconfig, we also touch _existing_ > > setups (as Junio pointed out). Which, in the case of autocrlf, is not > > desirable. > > I proposed a mechanism that would avoid such problems in the future. Yes, but your solution feels a bit limited and "hot-needled" for just one purpose. > Maybe we can improve the installer to warn the users that the default > has changed and existing repositories must either be converted or the > global default must be overridden. The installer could ask the user to > confirm this change. Maybe this is sufficient to avoid further > complains about weird behavior after upgrading. Maybe. My experience is that people do not even read the big red warnings in the installer. Whatever. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
