From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:42:17 GMT
Subject: Re: crlf with git-svn driving me nuts...
Message-ID: <20080417224217.GQ3133@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <320075ff0804171503g6dc04aa5pb7c9c362e31ce942@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:03:10PM +0100, Nigel Magnay wrote:
> 
> Well.... Newline = LF vs CRLF (vs CR for early mac.. erk) dates to
> well before C and UNIX; back into the days of baudot codes and
> teletype printers that couldn't physically newline in the time taken
> for 1 character to be processed; LF is meant to mean Line Feed and CR
> is meant to mean "Carriage Return", so CRLF is in that sense quite
> logical. But that's standards committees and backwards compatibility
> for you :-/

CRLF is logical from the point of you of teletype printers, but when
we speak about text files then it is more logical to consider them as
a list of lines. What particular symbol is used as line-separator does
not really matter, but IMHO it is stupid to have two symbols for that.
So, LF vs CR is matter of preferences, but CRLF is just stupid -;)

Dmitry