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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones•plus.com>
Cc: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web•de>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8] ls-files: Add eol diagnostics
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 13:45:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsi2jd309.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5683E8B4.7040005@ramsayjones.plus.com> (Ramsay Jones's message of "Wed, 30 Dec 2015 14:22:44 +0000")

Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones•plus.com> writes:

>> +	Show line endings ("eolinfo") and the text/eol attributes ("texteolattr") of
>> files.
>> +	"eolinfo" is the file content identification used by Git when
>> +	the "text" attribute is "auto", or core.autocrlf != false.
>> ++
>> +"eolinfo" is either "" (when the the info is not available"), or one of "binary",
>> +"text-no-eol", "text-lf", "text-crlf" or "text-crlf-lf".
>
> <bikeshedding>
>
> Again, I think this list reads better as: binary, none, lf, crlf and mixed.
>
> If you prefer to have 'text' in there somewhere, how about:
>
>    binary, text-none, text-lf, text-crlf, text-mixed.
>
> :-D

Yup, these shorter ones, especially without "text-" prefix, read
easier to humans; scripts won't mind either way, so I'd prefer that
shorter version.

Thanks for reminding the thread.

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-30 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-30 12:57 [PATCH v8] ls-files: Add eol diagnostics Torsten Bögershausen
2015-12-30 14:22 ` Ramsay Jones
2015-12-30 15:27   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-12-30 21:45   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-12-30 21:43 ` Junio C Hamano

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