Hi,

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Junio wrote:
> >
> >> Perhaps we can do something similar to core.filemode?  Create a file 
> >> that we would need to create anyway in "text" mode, and read it back 
> >> in "binary" mode to see what stdio did?
> >
> > The problem is that MinGW behaves sanely, i.e. it does not output CRLF 
> > but only LF.
> 
> Won't that behaviour be viewed rather as "insanely" from majority of 
> Windows users?

I think the truth is that CRLF was a mistake.  Nobody wants to take the 
blame for it, obviously, but more and more Windows tools just grok LF-only 
text.

The question is: what to do with those that cannot grok LF-only text.  I 
imagine that the best compromise for now would be to have crlf=true, with 
poor souls like Steffen having to set the gitattributes accordingly.

Ciao,
Dscho

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