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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Kelly F. Hickel" <kfh@mqsoftware.com>
Cc: Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CRLF support bugs (was: Re: .gitattributes glob matchingbroken)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:07:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081105030702.GD20907@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F79430296676E@emailmn.mqsoftware.com>

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 06:37:27AM -0600, Kelly F. Hickel wrote:

> From my point of view, the factoid that a particular file should be
> subjected to having its line endings munged is a _project_ decision.
> Whether or not to munge them on any given platform is a _local_
> decision.

Now that you spell it out, I am reminded that that is the argument I
remember having seen in past discussions. And of course, that argues for
.gitattributes being carried by the project, but the core.autocrlf
_config_ being a local decision.

Which, perhaps not coincidentally, is how it is currently implemented. :)

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-05  3:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-02 16:33 .gitattributes glob matching broken Hannu Koivisto
2008-11-03  9:09 ` Jeff King
2008-11-03 15:05   ` CRLF support bugs (was: Re: .gitattributes glob matching broken) Hannu Koivisto
2008-11-03 15:25     ` CRLF support bugs Hannu Koivisto
2008-11-03 16:46     ` CRLF support bugs (was: Re: .gitattributes glob matching broken) Dmitry Potapov
2008-11-03 22:24       ` CRLF support bugs Hannu Koivisto
2008-11-04  5:14     ` CRLF support bugs (was: Re: .gitattributes glob matching broken) Jeff King
2008-11-04 12:37       ` CRLF support bugs (was: Re: .gitattributes glob matchingbroken) Kelly F. Hickel
2008-11-05  3:07         ` Jeff King [this message]

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