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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:03:32 -0800
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> I think the project can mark text files as text with attributes
>> and if the port to the platform initialized core.autocrlf
>> appropriately for the platform everything should work as you
>> described. 
>
> Yes, I think core.autocrlf should default to "true" on Windows, since 
> that is what it's about. The alternative is to have "fail"/"warn", to just 
> make sure that nobody can do the wrong thing by mistake.
>
> We could just do something like this, although that probably does mean 
> that the whole test-suite needs to be double-checked (ie now we really do 
> behave differently on windows outside of any config options!))
>
> People who really dislike it can always do the
>
> 	git config --global core.autocrlf false
>
> thing.
>
> (And no, I don't know if "#ifdef __WINDOWS__" is the right thing to do, 
> it's almost certainly not. This is just a draft.)

Perhaps we can do something similar to core.filemode?  Create a
file that we would need to create anyway in "text" mode, and
read it back in "binary" mode to see what stdio did?