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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-09-08 21:35:51 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-09-08 21:35:52 -0700
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Merge branch 'jc/renormalize-merge-kill-safer-crlf' into maint
"git merge" with renormalization did not work well with merge-recursive, due to "safer crlf" conversion kicking in when it shouldn't. * jc/renormalize-merge-kill-safer-crlf: merge: avoid "safer crlf" during recording of merge results convert: unify the "auto" handling of CRLF
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mechanism.
core.autocrlf::
- Setting this variable to "true" is almost the same as setting
- the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files except that text
- files are not guaranteed to be normalized: files that contain
- `CRLF` in the repository will not be touched. Use this
- setting if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your
- working directory even though the repository does not have
- normalized line endings. This variable can be set to 'input',
+ Setting this variable to "true" is the same as setting
+ the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files and core.eol to "crlf".
+ Set to true if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your
+ working directory and the repository has LF line endings.
+ This variable can be set to 'input',
in which case no output conversion is performed.
core.symlinks::