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From: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v3 4/5] Rename "crlf" attribute as "eolconv"
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 23:21:53 +0200
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On 14. mai 2010, at 06.56, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

[Lots of good answers cut]

> - The crlf attribute gets a new synonym "text" to avoid confusion.

I would prefer to phrase that as "the text attribute has the synonym 'crlf' for backwards compatilibity".  If I wanted to avoid confusion I wouldn't have renamed it ;)
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Eyvind