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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 16:06:45 -0400
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On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org> wro=
te:
> Maybe it is sufficient to add a new value to "crlf" that means:
>
> - If the file is autodetected as text:
> =A0- Convert to LF only on commit, and
> =A0- Convert to your preferred EOL style on checkout.
>
> I don't think autocrlf is a good place to specify preferred EOL
> style, it is too dangerous to set autocrlf to true by default, but it=
 should
> not be dangerous to say that your preferred EOL style is CRLF.

Assuming it's updated to reuse the existing crlf attribute instead of
adding a new one, that seems to be exactly what this patch series is
about.  "Your preferred EOL style" is the newly introduced
core.eolStyle config option.  So... good idea :)

Have fun,

Avery