Re: Unresolved issues

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> Um, I don't want to spoil the party, but was not the original idea of this 
> auto-CRLF thing some sort of "emulation" of the CVS text checkout 
> behaviour?
> 
> In that case, .gitattributes (I mean a tracked one) would be wrong, wrong, 
> wrong.
> 
> It's a local setup if you want auto-CRLF or not. So, why not just make it 
> a local setting (if in config or $GIT_DIR/info/gitattributes, I don't 
> care) which shell patterns are to be transformed on input and/or output?

That is a good point. We *could* just make it a ".git/config" issue, which 
has the nice benefit that you can just set up some user-wide rules rather 
than making it be per-repo.

Of course, the config language may not be wonderful for this. But we could 
certainly have something like

	[format "crlf"]
		enable = true
		text = *.[ch]
		binary = *.jpg

which would just override the built-in rules (where anything that doesn't 
match is just "auto-content"). And make the default built-in ones be good 
enough that in _practice_ you never even need this in the first place.

		Linus