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From: Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>
To: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 'eol' documentation confusion
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 09:16:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHd499Do_bpdOkL2TqdO+8L=pR53117pKR0GSwdgvFDwq_S4=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHd499CapqvC3pHszgmX2VexdmqiW4+N23YfkAP5jjXWDrbe0A@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Upon inspection of the gitattributes documentation page here:
> https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes
>
> When comparing the documentation for 'text' with 'eol', I see the
> following missing explanations for 'eol':
>
> * eol
> * -eol
>
> Maybe the fact that these are missing means they are not valid to use.
> There is also the issue that `text` usually controls EOL anyway. Is
> there ever any reason to set eol in a way differently than explained
> in the documentation (that is, `eol=lf` or `eol=crlf`)?
>
> For example, what if you want a file to be treated as text BUT you do
> not want it to perform EOL normalization at all. Could you do this?
>
>     foo.txt text -eol
>
> Just at first glance, this to me would mean line endings on checkin
> and checkout are not touched (CRLF could be checked in). Is this
> possible?
>
> What about setting `eol` but not `text`?
>
> Honestly it seems like `eol` is just a supplementary setting for
> `text` and was never intended to be used in ways that are
> undocumented. Some explanation to help uncloud this would help, or
> maybe I missed something in the documentation that explains this.

I did a few tests out of curiosity:

    * eol

This allowed CRLF to be committed in a file named `foo.txt` (I saw ^M
in the diff, which I think means CR character, and treats this
character as an error)

    * text=auto eol

This did not differ in behavior from `* text=auto` from what I could
see. It removed CR characters in the repository on check in.

    * text=auto -eol

Same as before, the addition of `-eol` did not change the behavior at all.

So yeah, I'm still horribly confused. None of these scenarios make any
sense. The only time I ever set `eol` explicitly is to either do
`eol=lf` or `eol=crlf`.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-21 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-21 14:04 'eol' documentation confusion Robert Dailey
2015-06-21 14:16 ` Robert Dailey [this message]
2015-06-22  6:26   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-06-22 16:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-25 15:31       ` Torsten Bögershausen

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