From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dmitry Kakurin" Subject: Re: msysgit: should core.autocrlf=true be the default on Windows? Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:36:20 -0700 Message-ID: References: <7816DAAF-53CB-468C-9597-36AA94AC6476@zib.de> <84CFEBB5D7FE48FF86FEF3289C8DDAA8@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Steffen Prohaska" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 12 12:36:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IKAoM-0007Cg-Sj for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:36:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761999AbXHLKgY (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:36:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934450AbXHLKgX (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:36:23 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.187]:35273 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934476AbXHLKgV (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:36:21 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so969204rvb for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:36:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CpMjWeG8fXJ5U8H4HsOkyScl87PEMrfrbBzMC3sH11scIKX1hhZtnw97JDTSFwvTX7bQwGvf3DgtiKVmVyBvNqM2kj8jVH3uXj+zQIhRgPJ5203bpIgErJYBVUum/ssIMP2nOqkHTZbeMEecrQgbIyVuW1OuEVNQimkDxnSAmvE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Lx7SJ/CeBH2mn7Lppt+EaEe7FsbJBuwDjdNIz+z0RYCbltL9YcdHGZ1MopTY0w3NpQogvqqzl/YtZEb4n5YoBgbToe+NdyDYBR9LWDZX0By6RJqnrM1UrSQ/XDKjQmbmiEbEw7afMt7rATosC+zPu0ZiBD86NSutLNsBH69iQwM= Received: by 10.141.164.10 with SMTP id r10mr2104415rvo.1186914980948; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.21.17 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:36:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I'll be short. On 8/12/07, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > > Please keep in mind that msysgit is targeting developers who want > > to contribute to MinGW port of git. > Why that?. In my opinion msysgit is already the best git you can > get on Windows. End-user version could be made MUCH smaller. > > On the other hand, setup for end-users should have it as default, I > > agree. > > But our end-users are developers! We should leverage on that and make > msysgit the 'end-user' installation. Developers tend to be interested > in fixing problems with their working environment. We should provide > them a _very_ easy way of submitting their fixes and improvements > back to msysgit, e.g. via mob branch. This could speed up the Windows > porting effort tremendously. I agree. That's why msysgit was created. On the other hand, for many user Git is just a tool that they use to accomplish something important for them (completely unrelated to git). That's why end-user installer exists as well. -- - Dmitry