Hi, On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Junio wrote: > > > >> 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? > > > > The problem is that MinGW behaves sanely, i.e. it does not output CRLF > > but only LF. > > Won't that behaviour be viewed rather as "insanely" from majority of > Windows users? I think the truth is that CRLF was a mistake. Nobody wants to take the blame for it, obviously, but more and more Windows tools just grok LF-only text. The question is: what to do with those that cannot grok LF-only text. I imagine that the best compromise for now would be to have crlf=true, with poor souls like Steffen having to set the gitattributes accordingly. Ciao, Dscho
