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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 165 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 7afd0a333..9f1c785b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -196,20 +196,17 @@ core.quotepath:: quoted without `-z` regardless of the setting of this variable. -core.autocrlf:: - If true, makes git convert `CRLF` at the end of lines in text files to - `LF` when reading from the work tree, and convert in reverse when - writing to the work tree. The variable can be set to - 'input', in which case the conversion happens only while - reading from the work tree but files are written out to the work - tree with `LF` at the end of lines. A file is considered - "text" (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) based on - the file's `crlf` attribute, or if `crlf` is unspecified, - based on the file's contents. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]. +core.eol:: + Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for + files that have the `text` property set. Alternatives are + 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's native + line ending. The default value is `native`. See + linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information on end-of-line + conversion. core.safecrlf:: - If true, makes git check if converting `CRLF` as controlled by - `core.autocrlf` is reversible. Git will verify if a command + If true, makes git check if converting `CRLF` is reversible when + end-of-line conversion is active. Git will verify if a command modifies a file in the work tree either directly or indirectly. For example, committing a file followed by checking out the same file should yield the original file in the work tree. If @@ -219,7 +216,7 @@ core.safecrlf:: irreversible conversion but continue the operation. + CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. -autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to +When it is enabled, git will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by git. For text files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings @@ -243,15 +240,25 @@ converting CRLFs corrupts data. + Note, this safety check does not mean that a checkout will generate a file identical to the original file for a different setting of -`core.autocrlf`, but only for the current one. For example, a text -file with `LF` would be accepted with `core.autocrlf=input` and could -later be checked out with `core.autocrlf=true`, in which case the +`core.eol` and `core.autocrlf`, but only for the current one. For +example, a text file with `LF` would be accepted with `core.eol=lf` +and could later be checked out with `core.eol=crlf`, in which case the resulting file would contain `CRLF`, although the original file contained `LF`. However, in both work trees the line endings would be consistent, that is either all `LF` or all `CRLF`, but never mixed. A file with mixed line endings would be reported by the `core.safecrlf` 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', + in which case no output conversion is performed. + core.symlinks:: If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that contain the link text. linkgit:git-update-index[1] and @@ -979,13 +986,15 @@ gitcvs.logfile:: various stuff. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1]. gitcvs.usecrlfattr:: - If true, the server will look up the `crlf` attribute for - files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If `crlf` is set, - the '-k' mode will be left blank, so cvs clients will - treat it as text. If `crlf` is explicitly unset, the file + If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion + attributes for files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If + the attributes force git to treat a file as text, + the '-k' mode will be left blank so cvs clients will + treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging - the client might otherwise do. If `crlf` is not specified, - then 'gitcvs.allbinary' is used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]. + the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow + the file type to be determined, then 'gitcvs.allbinary' is + used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]. gitcvs.allbinary:: This is used if 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' does not resolve diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt index c27ca4350..7004dd2de 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt @@ -369,16 +369,13 @@ By default the server leaves the '-k' mode blank for all files, which causes the cvs client to treat them as a text files, subject to crlf conversion on some platforms. -You can make the server use `crlf` attributes to set the '-k' modes -for files by setting the `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` config variable. -In this case, if `crlf` is explicitly unset ('-crlf'), then the -server will set '-kb' mode for binary files. If `crlf` is set, -then the '-k' mode will explicitly be left blank. See -also linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information about the `crlf` -attribute. +You can make the server use the end-of-line conversion attributes to +set the '-k' modes for files by setting the `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` +config variable. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information +about end-of-line conversion. Alternatively, if `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` config is not enabled -or if the `crlf` attribute is unspecified for a filename, then +or the attributes do not allow automatic detection for a filename, then the server uses the `gitcvs.allbinary` config for the default setting. If `gitcvs.allbinary` is set, then file not otherwise specified will default to '-kb' mode. Otherwise the '-k' mode diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 0523a5769..564586b94 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -92,53 +92,154 @@ such as 'git checkout' and 'git merge' run. They also affect how git stores the contents you prepare in the working tree in the repository upon 'git add' and 'git commit'. -`crlf` +`text` ^^^^^^ -This attribute controls the line-ending convention. +This attribute enables and controls end-of-line normalization. When a +text file is normalized, its line endings are converted to LF in the +repository. To control what line ending style is used in the working +directory, use the `eol` attribute for a single file and the +`core.eol` configuration variable for all text files. Set:: - Setting the `crlf` attribute on a path is meant to mark - the path as a "text" file. 'core.autocrlf' conversion - takes place without guessing the content type by - inspection. + Setting the `text` attribute on a path enables end-of-line + normalization and marks the path as a text file. End-of-line + conversion takes place without guessing the content type. Unset:: - Unsetting the `crlf` attribute on a path tells git not to + Unsetting the `text` attribute on a path tells git not to attempt any end-of-line conversion upon checkin or checkout. +Set to string value "auto":: + + When `text` is set to "auto", the path is marked for automatic + end-of-line normalization. If git decides that the content is + text, its line endings are normalized to LF on checkin. + Unspecified:: - Unspecified `crlf` attribute tells git to apply the - `core.autocrlf` conversion when the file content looks - like text. + If the `text` attribute is unspecified, git uses the + `core.autocrlf` configuration variable to determine if the + file should be converted. -Set to string value "input":: +Any other value causes git to act as if `text` has been left +unspecified. - This is similar to setting the attribute to `true`, but - also forces git to act as if `core.autocrlf` is set to - `input` for the path. +`eol` +^^^^^ -Any other value set to `crlf` attribute is ignored and git acts -as if the attribute is left unspecified. +This attribute sets a specific line-ending style to be used in the +working directory. It enables end-of-line normalization without any +content checks, effectively setting the `text` attribute. +Set to string value "crlf":: -The `core.autocrlf` conversion -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + This setting forces git to normalize line endings for this + file on checkin and convert them to CRLF when the file is + checked out. + +Set to string value "lf":: + + This setting forces git to normalize line endings to LF on + checkin and prevents conversion to CRLF when the file is + checked out. + +Backwards compatibility with `crlf` attribute +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +For backwards compatibility, the `crlf` attribute is interpreted as +follows: + +------------------------ +crlf text +-crlf -text +crlf=input eol=lf +------------------------ + +End-of-line conversion +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +While git normally leaves file contents alone, it can be configured to +normalize line endings to LF in the repository and, optionally, to +convert them to CRLF when files are checked out. + +Here is an example that will make git normalize .txt, .vcproj and .sh +files, ensure that .vcproj files have CRLF and .sh files have LF in +the working directory, and prevent .jpg files from being normalized +regardless of their content. + +------------------------ +*.txt text +*.vcproj eol=crlf +*.sh eol=lf +*.jpg -text +------------------------ + +Other source code management systems normalize all text files in their +repositories, and there are two ways to enable similar automatic +normalization in git. + +If you simply want to have CRLF line endings in your working directory +regardless of the repository you are working with, you can set the +config variable "core.autocrlf" without changing any attributes. + +------------------------ +[core] + autocrlf = true +------------------------ + +This does not force normalization of all text files, but does ensure +that text files that you introduce to the repository have their line +endings normalized to LF when they are added, and that files that are +already normalized in the repository stay normalized. + +If you want to interoperate with a source code management system that +enforces end-of-line normalization, or you simply want all text files +in your repository to be normalized, you should instead set the `text` +attribute to "auto" for _all_ files. -If the configuration variable `core.autocrlf` is false, no -conversion is done. +------------------------ +* text=auto +------------------------ + +This ensures that all files that git considers to be text will have +normalized (LF) line endings in the repository. The `core.eol` +configuration variable controls which line endings git will use for +normalized files in your working directory; the default is to use the +native line ending for your platform, or CRLF if `core.autocrlf` is +set. + +NOTE: When `text=auto` normalization is enabled in an existing +repository, any text files containing CRLFs should be normalized. If +they are not they will be normalized the next time someone tries to +change them, causing unfortunate misattribution. From a clean working +directory: + +------------------------------------------------- +$ echo "* text=auto" >>.gitattributes +$ rm .git/index # Remove the index to force git to +$ git reset # re-scan the working directory +$ git status # Show files that will be normalized +$ git add -u +$ git add .gitattributes +$ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization" +------------------------------------------------- + +If any files that should not be normalized show up in 'git status', +unset their `text` attribute before running 'git add -u'. + +------------------------ +manual.pdf -text +------------------------ -When `core.autocrlf` is true, it means that the platform wants -CRLF line endings for files in the working tree, and you want to -convert them back to the normal LF line endings when checking -in to the repository. +Conversely, text files that git does not detect can have normalization +enabled manually. -When `core.autocrlf` is set to "input", line endings are -converted to LF upon checkin, but there is no conversion done -upon checkout. +------------------------ +weirdchars.txt text +------------------------ If `core.safecrlf` is set to "true" or "warn", git verifies if the conversion is reversible for the current setting of @@ -223,11 +324,11 @@ Interaction between checkin/checkout attributes In the check-in codepath, the worktree file is first converted with `filter` driver (if specified and corresponding driver defined), then the result is processed with `ident` (if -specified), and then finally with `crlf` (again, if specified +specified), and then finally with `text` (again, if specified and applicable). In the check-out codepath, the blob content is first converted -with `crlf`, and then `ident` and fed to `filter`. +with `text`, and then `ident` and fed to `filter`. Generating diff text @@ -651,7 +752,7 @@ You do not want any end-of-line conversions applied to, nor textual diffs produced for, any binary file you track. You would need to specify e.g. ------------ -*.jpg -crlf -diff +*.jpg -text -diff ------------ but that may become cumbersome, when you have many attributes. Using @@ -664,7 +765,7 @@ the same time. The system knows a built-in attribute macro, `binary`: which is equivalent to the above. Note that the attribute macros can only be "Set" (see the above example that sets "binary" macro as if it were an -ordinary attribute --- setting it in turn unsets "crlf" and "diff"). +ordinary attribute --- setting it in turn unsets "text" and "diff"). DEFINING ATTRIBUTE MACROS @@ -675,7 +776,7 @@ at the toplevel (i.e. not in any subdirectory). The built-in attribute macro "binary" is equivalent to: ------------ -[attr]binary -diff -crlf +[attr]binary -diff -text ------------ |