Re: [boost] [git] conversion stalled

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] conversion stalled
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-24 23:35:59

On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 3:23:46 PM UTC-7, Niall Douglas wrote:
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> Dave I think decided that every text file needed listing in 
> .gitattributes with its EOL style, and the .gitattributes file needs 
> permuting every commit because as commits pass some text files will 
> change from UTF-16 EOL 13,10 through Latin1 EOL 13,10 to UTF-8 EOL 10 
> etc so a static .gitattributes would still introduce corruption. 

This doesn't sound reminiscent of anything I remember deciding.

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