Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] CRLF: unify the "auto" handling

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:25:03 -0700

[email-masked] writes:

> From: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
>
> Make .gitattributes "* text=auto eol=crlf" to do the same as
> setting core.autocrlf=true and "* text=auto eol=crlf" the same
> as core.autocrlf=input

"Earlier we didn't do so and instead did X, which was not great
because it caused symptom Y and Z"

would be necessary for future readers to understand why the above
change is a good idea.