Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

> The recent threads on a mingw git port are explicit in the intent to 
> provide a Windows native git. I believe there is a fundamental conflict 
> here with the position, clearly stated by Linus, that git does not alter 
> content in any way. Windows suffers the curse of DOS line endings (\r\n 
> vs \n), and a true port to Windows *must* allow for \r\n and \n to be 
> semantically the same thing as most large projects end up with a mixture 
> of such files and/or are targeting cross-platform capabilities. The 
> major competing solutions git seeks to supplant (cvs, cvsnt, svn, hg) 
> have capability to recognize "text" files and transparently replace \r\n 
> with \n on input, the reverse on output, and ignore all such differences 
> on diff operations. To be relevant on native Windows, git must do the 
> same. Otherwise, git will be deemed "too wierd" and dismissed in favor 
> of a tool "that works."
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