Re: [PATCH] Respect crlf attribute in "git add" even if core.autocrlf has not been set

[Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:39:34PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> Well, seems I will just continue shouting "why did you commit that 
> CR-ridden file?" and get shouted back with "why does this §&%&%&!° Git 
> tool not fix it for me automatically?  Even _Subversion_ can do it."

Actually, no... With Subversion, if you do not have correct auto-props
then every newly added file will have incorrect end-of-lines. So, each
user has to manually add all possible text extensions in the auto-props
section of his/her subversion config file. In practice, it means that
with SVN you have far less problems with EOLs in first few days when
users just existing files, but then the problem reemerge every time when
someone adds a new file... So, it is not much better...

In constrast, Git provides automatic text detection and EOL conversion,
but it is not enabled where it should... at least, on Windows, and for
those who copies file directly from Windows through network shares or by
other means.

Dmitry