Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> I think the project can mark text files as text with attributes >> and if the port to the platform initialized core.autocrlf >> appropriately for the platform everything should work as you >> described. > > Yes, I think core.autocrlf should default to "true" on Windows, since > that is what it's about. The alternative is to have "fail"/"warn", to just > make sure that nobody can do the wrong thing by mistake. > > We could just do something like this, although that probably does mean > that the whole test-suite needs to be double-checked (ie now we really do > behave differently on windows outside of any config options!)) > > People who really dislike it can always do the > > git config --global core.autocrlf false > > thing. > > (And no, I don't know if "#ifdef __WINDOWS__" is the right thing to do, > it's almost certainly not. This is just a draft.)
Perhaps we can do something similar to core.filemode? Create a file that we would need to create anyway in "text" mode, and read it back in "binary" mode to see what stdio did?
