Re: Git refuses to commit files with DOS EOL

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> that
> page (and numerous others I've seen) all advise to turn on EOL
> conversion, which is simply wrong.

Shrug.  It's right for many projects, probably most.  But that's not a topic we 
need to worry about here.

> After reading all that stuff, including the gitattributes man page, I
> have only one question: why files like dostorture.c are marked
> "-whitespace" and not "whitespace=cr-at-eol"?  The latter seems to be
> more specific, and still allows detection of trailing whitespace in
> files with DOS-style EOL

When I wrote that, I was concerned about portability to older versions of git, 
where the crlf conversion algorithms were different.  I didn't want to worry 
about the hassle of testing this stuff on older Git versions, so I used a 
conservative (i.e., loose) setting for the CRLF files.  If you can verify that a 
stricter setting based on cr-at-eol is useful on older Git versions on GNUish 
platforms, feel free to change to the stricter setting.

I suggest testing Git 1.7.1 for this, as per 
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg00037.html>.