Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkout: fix attribute handling in checkout all

["Dmitry Kakurin" <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>]

On 8/13/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
> My target audience of Git on Windows are Windows users and, frankly,
> that is the only reasonable way to think about Windows. Why else should
> I boot Windows, if I don't have real Windows users in mind? I mean,
> Windows is not the superior platform to build Unix on top. The reason
> to boot Windows is Windows itself, including its real users.

I agree with this approach.

> Maybe I don't fully understand what msysgit is about. I thought it would
> be about real Windows support, which I think requires to accept what
> Windows users expect to be the right thing: Windows EOL.

msysgit is Build Environment for Git on Windows. It's purpose is to
facilitate Git development. This is not what end-user wants.
Another installer (WinGit) is targeting end users. It is just so
happens that msysgit is in better shape right now and more useful. But
long term it will not be the case.

Here is another consideration: let's say I've started a new git repo
under Windows with no autocrlf set. Then my repo will contain crlf
line endings.
Now let's say that someone else checks out this repo with
autocrlf=true. What would happen then? Will they get cr cr lf?
-- 
- Dmitry