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From: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v3 4/5] Rename "crlf" attribute as "eolconv"
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 12:59:15 +0200
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On 13. mai 2010, at 03.38, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> so now you can write:
> 
> 	*.jpg -text
> 	*.txt text
> 	*.vcproj eol=crlf
> 	*.sh eol=lf
> 	* text=auto

[...]

> Doesn't that look finally sane?
> 
> Because if we really renaem the attributes, let's rename them _right_.

Beautiful.

Do you agree that "native" eol should only be CRLF if autocrlf is true?  Otherwise, if .gitattributes looks like this:

	*.txt text

git will put CRLFs in .txt files but LFs in .c files, and I don't think that makes much sense.
-- 
Eyvind