Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 33

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Yubin Ruan wrote:
> 2017-11-20 16:33 GMT+08:00 Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>:

>> A draft of a new Git Rev News edition is available here:
>>
>>   https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-33.md
>>
>> Everyone is welcome to contribute in any section either by editing the
>> above page on GitHub and sending a pull request, or by commenting on
>> this GitHub issue:
>>
>>   https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/262
>>
>> You can also reply to this email.
[...]
> For the CRLF issue: I am not really that concerned with this issue
> because I mostly develop all my project on Linux. But can't git treat
> CRLF and LF just as the same thing? That will solves the problem
> gracefully.

Do you mean that it should ignore line ending changes?  What line
endings should a user get when they "git clone" or "git checkout"?

That said, I believe that the gitattributes(5) manpage does an okay
job of covering this and that that thread came to a clear conclusion:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/20171026203046.fu3z5ngnw7hckfrn@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com/

I commented at [1] that I found the conclusion of the rev news entry
misleading and confusing but it doesn't appear that there is anything
I can do about that.  It's disappointing because if there is something
that was not covered in that thread, then it would be good to revive
it so we can improve the program's behavior or docs, but I wasn't able
to find out what was missed.

Thanks,
Jonathan

[1] https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/262#issuecomment-345804038