The case against "eol = clean"

[Ian Clatworthy]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> I think having a "I don't care what it is, as long as it is consistent"
> would be reasonable to have, as it lets you set it for all files, and
> then override that value for specific files you care about.

So perhaps

  eol = auto

should detect the convention from the first line and normalise the rest
of the file to that?

Ian C.