Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add core.autocrlf=true on cygwin by default during tests

From: Don Slutz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 14:16:28 -0400

Based on:

On 5/11/2009 4:54 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Don Slutz wrote:
>
>   
>> This is a patch set to do the work from mail message:
>>
>> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/8/7/254415
>>
>> It is split into 6 parts.  This is because the tests do not work on
>> Linux if autocrlf=true.
>>
>> 1) The change to autocrlf=true by default for cygwin
>>     
>
> From the fallout of our unilateral decision in msysGit to set 
> autoCRLF=true all the time, I would advise against this change.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>   

On 5/11/2009 4:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Don Slutz <Don.Slutz <at> SierraAtlantic.com> writes:
>
>   
>> This is a patch set to do the work from mail message:
>>
>> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/8/7/254415
>>
>> It is split into 6 parts.  This is because the tests do not work on
>> Linux if autocrlf=true.
>>
>> 1) The change to autocrlf=true by default for cygwin
>>     
>
> I help maintain the cygwin packaging of git, and I don't particularly like 
> patch 1/6.  Cygwin very much recommends that users stick with binary mounts, 
> where cr's are not inserted/stripped by default, and enabling autocrlf in that 
> situation is asking for problems (namely, the same set of problems as you would 
> have on Linux with autocrlf=true).  While adding an environment variable is 
> useful for the case of a user building git on cygwin with the intent of using a 
> text-mode mount, it goes against the grain of cygwin's recommendation of not 
> using text-mode mounts in the first place.  I would rather see the default 
> remain false, even on cygwin, unless the person building git takes steps to 
> activate it themselves.
>
>   
I will change 1/6 into adding the environment variable without the 
default change. v2 sometime soon.
   -Don

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