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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Respect crlf attribute even if core.autocrlf has not
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:23:00 -0700
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> If you are on a sane system, you do not even want to pay the price of 
>> conversion.  Only people on systems with CRLF line endings should pay 
>> the price (because your aim is to convert on such systems).  Are we 
>> throwing that out of the window when the project decides to use 
>> gitattributes?
>
> Well, if you do not want that, why do you set crlf in the gitattributes to 
> begin with?

It is not _me_ but the project upstream that needs to interact also with
Windows people who manages gitattributes.  And me personally knows my
editors are not helpful to add CR at the end of lines, so I do not need
the conversion.

That was the situation I had in mind.