On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
quoted text
> 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
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