From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, hasan.aljudy@gmail.com,
kusmabite@googlemail.com, prohaska@zib.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 17:30:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2z32541b131005071430vcd851ac8yd3c783429a84f875@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005071421340.901@i5.linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 2010, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:
>> I don't understand. All you have to do is add "* auto-eol=true" to your
>> .gitattributes, and line endings will be normalized exactly as if you'd
>> set "core.autocrlf". Why would you have to write totally new rules?
>> Which rules?
>
> I think "* auto-eol=true" is just crazy. We would _never_ want to do that.
> Any project that does that should be shot in the head.
In the interests of further making myself look like an idiot:
Just to clarify, is it crazy because that line would convert all
files, even binary ones, where core.autocrlf auto-detects whether
files are binary or text?
Avery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-07 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-05 10:01 What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux? mat
2010-05-05 13:27 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-05-06 9:27 ` mat
2010-05-06 10:03 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-05-06 2:35 ` hasen j
2010-05-06 7:29 ` Wilbert van Dolleweerd
2010-05-06 15:34 ` hasen j
2010-05-06 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-06 17:26 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-05-06 20:00 ` hasen j
2010-05-06 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-06 20:40 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-05-06 22:14 ` hasen j
2010-05-06 23:25 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-05-18 15:13 ` Anthony W. Youngman
2010-05-06 22:27 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-05-06 22:27 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/3] Add "auto-eol" attribute and "core.eolStyle" config variable Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-05-06 22:27 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/3] Add tests for per-repository eol normalization Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-05-06 22:27 ` [PATCH/RFC 3/3] Add " Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-05-06 23:38 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization Avery Pennarun
2010-05-06 23:54 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 8:45 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-05-07 16:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-07 16:57 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 19:11 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 19:35 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 19:58 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 20:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 20:42 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-05-07 20:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 21:17 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-05-07 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 21:30 ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2010-05-07 21:37 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-05-07 21:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 22:34 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 22:54 ` hasen j
2010-05-07 23:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 23:47 ` hasen j
2010-05-07 23:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-08 0:19 ` hasen j
2010-05-08 0:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-08 1:39 ` hasen j
2010-05-08 1:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-08 2:49 ` hasen j
2010-05-08 3:31 ` Robert Buck
2010-05-08 3:45 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-08 10:36 ` hasen j
2010-05-08 11:36 ` Robert Buck
2010-05-08 3:34 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-08 0:31 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 22:19 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-08 20:49 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-05-08 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-08 23:42 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-05-09 7:49 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-05-09 10:35 ` Robert Buck
2010-05-07 20:58 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 19:23 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-05-07 19:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-05-07 19:36 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 20:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-05-07 21:00 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 21:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-05-07 21:26 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 22:09 ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-05-07 22:10 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 19:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 20:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-05-07 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-07 19:25 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-05-07 19:41 ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2010-05-07 20:06 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-07 20:11 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2010-05-07 7:15 ` What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux? Gelonida
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