4 # ensure LF endings on all checkouts
5 configure.ac crlf=input
6 config.rpath crlf=input
7 configure.host crlf=input
8 mkinstalldirs crlf=input
11 .gitattributes crlf=input
14 # ensure native line endings on checkout
22 # don't do anything to line-endings. Let CRLFs/LFs go into the repo, and CRLF/LFs on checkout
29 # The ideal situation would be to do no EOL normalization. Each file
30 # would have a default EOL, and tools on Windows and Linux would handle
33 # We're not in the ideal world. A popular editor on Windows (possibly
34 # Visual Studio) silently introduces EOL corruption -- it displays an
35 # LF-file normally, but any newly added lines have CRLF. On Linux,
36 # Emacs and versions of VI handle LF-files and CRLF-files properly.
37 # However, emacs doesn't like files with both LF and CRLF EOLs. Editing
38 # the file without additional action will increase the EOL corruption
41 # Another vector for mixed EOLs is scripts. We mostly don't have scripts
42 # that add new lines -- so we rarely see this. However, one major event
43 # in the tree was the addition of copyright headers using a script. That
44 # script introduced EOL corruption.
46 # Any automated EOL normalization of files already in the repository will
47 # cause difficulties in traversing histories, assigning blame, etc. So, we
48 # don't want to change what's in the repository significantly, even if it
53 # a) we ensure that there's no further corruption of LF-files. So, we use
54 # git's 'crlf' attribute on those files to ensure that things are fine
55 # when we work on Windows. We could use 'crlf=input', but it doesn't buy
56 # us much -- we might as well be working with consistent EOLs for files in
57 # working directories as well as in the repository
59 # b) if the file already of CRLFs, we don't do any normalization. We use '-crlf'
60 # so that git doesn't do any EOL-conversion of the file. As I said, this
61 # is mostly harmless on Linux. We can't mark these files as 'crlf' or use
62 # the new (git 1.7.2) 'eol=crlf' attribute, since it changes the contents
63 # _inside_ the repository [1], and hence makes history traversal annoying.
64 # So, we live with occasional EOL corruption.
66 # c) We can handle mixed-EOL files on a case-by-case basis, converting them to
67 # LF- or CRLF-files based on which causes fewer lines to change
69 # d) We try to ensure no further headaches, by declaring EOL normalization on
70 # code files, and Unix-flavoured files, like shell-scripts, makefiles, etc.
72 # [1] GIT use LFs as the normalized internal representation.