Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Jan 11, 2008, 22:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20080111222126.GA30184@uranus.ravnborg.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801112116180.31053@racer.site>

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:18:49PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:16:02AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > (Every place I've ever been at, people who had a choice would never 
> > > ever develop under Windows, so I've never seen any real mixing - even 
> > > when some parts of the project were DOS/Windows stuff, there was a 
> > > clear boundary between the stuff that was actually done under Windows)
> > 
> > The reality I see is the other way around as common practice.
> 
> Not in my world.
> 
> I see a few people who are stuck to Windows, but they are so because they 
> are lazy.  They do not ever do something interesting with computers in 
> their free time, and while working, they only do what they are told to do.

Some of the people I have in my mind I will certainly not call lazy, but the other part of the description is a fine match.

> That might sound cynical, but you will have to _show_ me different 
> examples to make me reconsider.

I just wanted to say that things looks different in some places of the world nad for some types of development. I do not even know what I should try to make you reconsider - as I did not follow the full thread. Just stumbled over this statement.

Sam