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authorEyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>2010-05-20 00:43:11 +0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-05-20 07:42:34 +0400
commit5ec3e67052289217c84e53d2cda90d939ac5725b (patch)
tree925b092d3514202f5bb0af98f9e19dd639f74a99 /Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
parentfd6cce9e89ab5ac1125a3b5f5611048ad22379e7 (diff)
Rename the "crlf" attribute "text"
As discussed on the list, "crlf" is not an optimal name. Linus suggested "text", which is much better. Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index dbb053ee17..086485763c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -340,16 +340,13 @@ 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