On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:34:13AM +0100, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > Storing the current value of autocrlf to preserve it for this repository > even if the global setup changes is a good idea. Changing autocrlf > later is tricky because the work tree's line endings depend on the > settings during checkout. Therefore, it makes sense to preserve the > value of autocrlf that exists during the first checkout. In this > regards autocrlf is different from, for example, author, because author > can be easily changed later without requiring any conversion of existing > files in the work tree. > > This commit modifies the initialization of a new repository to store the > current value of autocrlf.
NAK While I agree that preserving autocrlf may be a good idea, I don't like that the idea of making an exception for autocrlf and treating the global settings for it differently than for other variables -- as something that should be copied on init. We have templates for that, so autocrlf should be placed into templates/config and then it will be automatically copied when a new repository is created. I have tested that now, and it works. Dmitry
