Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization

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From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 2:54 pm

On Sun, 9 May 2010, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

What the heck is wrong with people?


Right. Look at it. It's totally incomprehensible. It's _worse_ than "crlf" 
as a name.

What the f*ck does "jpg" have to do with "eol"? Nothing.

You could talk about "binary" vs "text", and it would make sense, but your 
argument that "eol" is somehow better than "crlf" is just insane.

So I could certainly see

	*.jpg binary
	*.txt text

making sense. But "eol" is certainly no better than "crlf". 

In the end, crlf is what we have. We're not getting rid of it, so if 
somebody were to actually rename it, that would just mean that there are 
_two_ different ways to say the same thing. And quite frankly, I think 
that's worse than what we have now, so I don't think it's worth it.

		Linus
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Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux?, Ramkumar Ramachandra, (Wed May 5, 6:27 am)
Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux?, Wilbert van Dolleweerd, (Thu May 6, 12:29 am)
Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux?, Erik Faye-Lund, (Thu May 6, 3:03 am)
Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux?, Linus Torvalds, (Thu May 6, 10:15 am)
Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux?, Erik Faye-Lund, (Thu May 6, 10:26 am)
Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux?, Linus Torvalds, (Thu May 6, 1:23 pm)
Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux?, Erik Faye-Lund, (Thu May 6, 1:40 pm)
[PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization, Eyvind Bernhardsen, (Thu May 6, 3:27 pm)
[PATCH/RFC 2/3] Add tests for per-repository eol normalization, Eyvind Bernhardsen, (Thu May 6, 3:27 pm)
[PATCH/RFC 3/3] Add per-repository eol normalization, Eyvind Bernhardsen, (Thu May 6, 3:27 pm)
Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux?, Erik Faye-Lund, (Thu May 6, 4:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization, Eyvind Bernhardsen, (Fri May 7, 12:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization, Eyvind Bernhardsen, (Fri May 7, 12:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization, Finn Arne Gangstad, (Fri May 7, 12:41 pm)
Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization, Eyvind Bernhardsen, (Fri May 7, 1:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization, Eyvind Bernhardsen, (Fri May 7, 1:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization, Eyvind Bernhardsen, (Fri May 7, 2:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization, Eyvind Bernhardsen, (Fri May 7, 2:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization, A Large Angry SCM, (Fri May 7, 3:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization, Linus Torvalds, (Sat May 8, 2:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Per-repository end-of-line normalization, Eyvind Bernhardsen, (Sun May 9, 12:49 am)
Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux?, Anthony W. Youngman, (Tue May 18, 8:13 am)