I think core.autocrlf=true should be the default on Windows.
I strongly believe that Windows users expect this default,
as others Windows application rely on it. I recently tried to
use kdiff3 on Windows and got satisfactory results only after
using autocrlf.

autocrlf should be set right from the very beginning. If you
found out about it later, you would have to convert your existing
working trees, which is not too easy. Therefore we should
guide the user to a reasonable default.

We can report the defaults we chose in *bold* after the
installation completed and give a hint where further background
information can be found, and what would be needed to adjust
the default.

What do you think?

Would /etc/gitconfig in msysgit be the right place to set the
default?

	Steffen


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