Re: [Libusb-devel] CRLF in files checked out on Windows

[Segher B. <se...@ke...>]

>> So we don't need a .gitattributes at all; at most we need to advise
>> people to keep core.autocrlf off for our trees.
>
> The default is off, so I think most other projects simply assume that
> people do not touch these settings.

Agreed, it seems that way.

> I suggested Pete and Michael to set them,

Ah, it's all your fault!  :-P

> so that they would get CRLF
> line endings in their work trees, since they work on Windows.

It seems it doesn't work on the various mswindows environments to
have certain files as CRLF; and it does work to have everything
as LF.

(An exception perhaps is the MSVC project files; I think everyone
agrees we should have those marked as binary?)

> If that was just misguided of me then I'm even happier with moving on
> without any .gitattributes, and someone who does want CRLF will have
> to sort that out on their own.

That is the best solution for this non-problem I think, yes.


Segher