From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Finn Arne Gangstad Subject: Improved autocrlf description in RelNotes-1.7.2.txt Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:58:44 +0200 Message-ID: <20100702075844.GA14583@pvv.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 02 09:58:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUb9B-00065h-NO for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:58:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754394Ab0GBH6s (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 03:58:48 -0400 Received: from decibel.pvv.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.179]:59637 "EHLO decibel.pvv.ntnu.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752396Ab0GBH6r (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 03:58:47 -0400 Received: from finnag by decibel.pvv.ntnu.no with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUb92-00057m-5E; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:58:44 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --- I think RelNotes should be rewritten along these lines.. Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt | 11 +++++++---- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt index aa79f06..92f0da3 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.2.txt @@ -4,11 +4,14 @@ Git v1.7.2 Release Notes (draft) Updates since v1.7.1 -------------------- - * core.eol configuration and eol attribute are the new way to control - the end of line conventions for files in the working tree; - core.autocrlf overrides it, keeping the traditional behaviour by - default. - + * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control + the end of line conventions for files in the working tree. + + * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line + endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the + repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with + CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes. + * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff" gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with policy to indent only with spaces. -- 1.7.2.rc1