Re: [PATCH] .gitattributes: include `text` attribute for eol attributes

["Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 12:59:20PM +0000, Philip Oakley wrote:
> The standard advice for text file eol endings in the .gitattributes file
> was updated in e28eae3184 (gitattributes: Document the unified "auto"
> handling, 2016-08-26) with a recent clarification in 8c591dbfce (docs:
> correct documentation about eol attribute, 2022-01-11), with a follow
> up comment by the original author in [1] confirming the use of the eol
> attribute in conjunction with the text attribute.
>
> Update Git's .gitattributes file to reflect our own advice.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=%3C20220216115239.uo2ie3flaqo3nf2d%40tb-raspi4%3E.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
> ---
>
> I was catching up on last year's back emails, and had saved those on
> eol and text conversion, and was prompted by Torsten's [1] to check
> my .gitattribute files, only to discover, we aren't providing a good
> example to others. Let's fix that.
>
>
>  .gitattributes | 22 +++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
> index b0044cf272..158c3d45c4 100644
> --- a/.gitattributes
> +++ b/.gitattributes
> @@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
>  * whitespace=!indent,trail,space
>  *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp
> -*.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space eol=lf
> -*.perl eol=lf diff=perl
> -*.pl eof=lf diff=perl
> -*.pm eol=lf diff=perl
> -*.py eol=lf diff=python
> -*.bat eol=crlf
> +*.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space text eol=lf
> +*.perl text eol=lf diff=perl
> +*.pl text eof=lf diff=perl
> +*.pm text eol=lf diff=perl

> +*.py text eol=lf diff=python
In my eperience python doesn't care about CRLF or LF, both work.

And it is stated here:
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html?highlight=line%20endings

In that sense we can loosen the eol=lf, and use CRLF under
Windows and LF elsewhere. This will make e.g. notepad users happy:

> +*.py text  diff=python