Torsten Bögershausen <tbo...@web.de> writes:
> When working in a cross-platform environment, a user wants to
> check if text files are stored normalized in the repository and if
> .gitattributes are set appropriately.
>
> Make it possible to let Git show the line endings in the index and
> in the working tree and the effective text/eol attributes.
>
> The end of line ("eolinfo") are shown like this:
> "binary" binary file
> "text-no-eol" text file without any EOL
> "text-lf" text file with LF
> "text-crlf" text file with CRLF
> "text-crlf-lf" text file with mixed line endings.
>
> The effective text/eol attribute is one of these:
> "", "-text", "text", "text=auto", "eol=lf", "eol=crlf"
>
> git ls-files --eol gives an output like this:
>
> i/text-no-eol w/text-no-eol attr/text=auto t/t5100/empty
> i/binary w/binary attr/-text t/test-binary-2.png
> i/text-lf w/text-lf attr/eol=lf t/t5100/rfc2047-info-0007
> i/text-lf w/text-crlf attr/eol=crlf doit.bat
> i/text-crlf-lf w/text-crlf-lf attr/ locale/XX.po
>
> Note that the output is meant to be human-readable and may change.
Wait, what?
I've been assuming that these output being designed was to be read
by machine, because this new feature is implemented as a part of the
command "ls-files", which is plumbing whose output is meant for
script consumption.
> +--eol::
> + Show line endings ("eolinfo") and the text/eol attributes
> ("texteolattr") of files.
> + "eolinfo" is the file content identification used by Git when
> + the "text" attribute is "auto", or core.autocrlf != false.
> +
> + "eolinfo" is either "" (when the the info is not available"), or one of
> "binary",
> + "text-no-eol", "text-lf", "text-crlf" or "text-crlf-lf".
> + The "texteolattr" can be "", "-text", "text", "text=auto", "eol=lf",
> "eol=crlf".
> +
> + Both the content in the index ("i/") and the content in the working
> tree ("w/")
> + are shown for regular files, followed by the "texteolattr ("attr/").
> +
Does this format well, or would the second and third paragraph be
format in a funny way?
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