[PATCH] D124563: Drop '* text=auto' from .gitattributes and normalize

Thu Apr 28 06:56:51 PDT 2022

aaronpuchert added a comment.

In D124563#3479819 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D124563#3479819>, @MForster wrote:

> See D124606 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D124606>. `-text` seems to be the right compromise.

To quote an earlier comment from this thread:

In D124563#3478625 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D124563#3478625>, @smeenai wrote:

> I *think* this would mean that if you're on Windows and have `core.autocrlf` set to `input`, when you commit changes to this files, Git will convert them back to LF line endings. Not 100% sure of that though.

Which convinced me that D97625 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D97625> was right: we do want the line endings to remain CRLF, and not have them accidentally destroyed. With `-text` we say that we don't care, which is not true.

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