On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 09:57:52AM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:54 PM Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Robert Dailey wrote: > > > > > Is there an 'auto' setting for the 'core.autocrlf' config? Reason I > > > ask is, I want that setting to be 'input' on linux but 'true' on > > > Windows. > > > > Others are exploring your question about the configuration language, > > but I want to emphasize some other ramifications. > > > > Why do we still have 'core.autocrlf'? Do 'core.eol' and related > > settings take care of that need, or is autocrlf still needed? If > > core.eol etc do not take care of this need, what should we do to get > > them to? > > > > Thanks, after having run into a few too many autocrlf-related messes, > > Jonathan > > From my perspective, the confusion is due to the evolution of the > feature. There's multiple ways to control EOL handling but most of it > is legacy/backward compatibility, I think. core.autocrlf is a > fall-back for repos that do not have a .gitattributes. Because > .gitattributes is optional by design, I'm not sure if getting rid of > the config options is a good idea.
Good summary. My original plan was to try to "make obsolete"/retire and phase out core.autocrlf completely. However, since e.g. egit/jgit uses it (they don't have support for .gitattributes at all) I am not sure if this is a good idea either. Opinions are welcome. > But your point did make me think > about how `core.autocrlf = true` should probably be a system config > default for the Git for Windows project. The default for that value > should be platform-defined. That would make it automatically work the > way I want, and might solve a lot of the issues where people are > committing CRLF into repositories on Windows. Unless I am wrong, that had been the default a long time ago: Git for Windows (at that time msysgit) had core.autocrlf=true by default. While this is a good choice for many repos, some people prefer core.autocrlf=input. Others just commit files for Windows-based repos with CRLF, and the advantage is, that "git diff" doesn't show "^M" somewhere. I allways encourage people to set up a .gitattributes file. Does anybody thinks that we can make core.autocrlf obsolete ?
