From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:12:21 GMT
Subject: Re: use binmode(STDOUT) in git-status
Message-ID: <20051129221221.GC3033@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511281756001.11697@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin, Mon, Nov 28, 2005 17:56:58 +0100:
> > if you're running Cygwin, wouldn't Cygwin's Perl make a lot more sense?
> 
> I thought so, too, but I guess there's a reason that Activision's perl was 
> used.

the reason were incompatible scripts (notably, the ones expecting crlf).