CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

> Let's make CRLF one less thing that your grandchildren need to know about or worry about.

The struggle is real, the problem is real. Parents, teach your kids to use .gitattribute files[1]. While you're at it, teach them to hate byte order marks[2].

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73086622/is-a-gitattribu...

2: https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/byte-order-marks-must-diemd/

Nope. Git should not mess with line endings, the remote repository not matching the code in your local clone can bite you when you least expect it. On Windows, one should disable the autocrlf misfeature (git config --global core.autocrlf false) and configure their text editor to default to LF.