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    Lazy man's auto-CRLF · 6c510bee
    Linus Torvalds 提交于
    It currently does NOT know about file attributes, so it does its
    conversion purely based on content. Maybe that is more in the "git
    philosophy" anyway, since content is king, but I think we should try to do
    the file attributes to turn it off on demand.
    
    Anyway, BY DEFAULT it is off regardless, because it requires a
    
    	[core]
    		AutoCRLF = true
    
    in your config file to be enabled. We could make that the default for
    Windows, of course, the same way we do some other things (filemode etc).
    
    But you can actually enable it on UNIX, and it will cause:
    
     - "git update-index" will write blobs without CRLF
     - "git diff" will diff working tree files without CRLF
     - "git checkout" will write files to the working tree _with_ CRLF
    
    and things work fine.
    
    Funnily, it actually shows an odd file in git itself:
    
    	git clone -n git test-crlf
    	cd test-crlf
    	git config core.autocrlf true
    	git checkout
    	git diff
    
    shows a diff for "Documentation/docbook-xsl.css". Why? Because we have
    actually checked in that file *with* CRLF! So when "core.autocrlf" is
    true, we'll always generate a *different* hash for it in the index,
    because the index hash will be for the content _without_ CRLF.
    
    Is this complete? I dunno. It seems to work for me. It doesn't use the
    filename at all right now, and that's probably a deficiency (we could
    certainly make the "is_binary()" heuristics also take standard filename
    heuristics into account).
    
    I don't pass in the filename at all for the "index_fd()" case
    (git-update-index), so that would need to be passed around, but this
    actually works fine.
    
    NOTE NOTE NOTE! The "is_binary()" heuristics are totally made-up by yours
    truly. I will not guarantee that they work at all reasonable. Caveat
    emptor. But it _is_ simple, and it _is_ safe, since it's all off by
    default.
    
    The patch is pretty simple - the biggest part is the new "convert.c" file,
    but even that is really just basic stuff that anybody can write in
    "Teaching C 101" as a final project for their first class in programming.
    Not to say that it's bug-free, of course - but at least we're not talking
    about rocket surgery here.
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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