On 7. mai 2010, at 22.57, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Fri, 7 May 2010, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:
>> 
>> How can you say that this is simpler than my syntax?
> 
> Because your syntax adds totally new attributes, so now you can't even 
> take an existing .gitattributes and make it do something sane - instead 
> you have to write totally new rules.

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?

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> My suggestion just makes any existing usage do the "what you'd expect".
> 
> THAT is simpler.

Well, sort of, but "simple for someone who already knows how core.autocrlf works" isn't what I'm aiming for :)
-- 
Eyvind

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