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Re: CRLF, LF ... CR ?

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JBJens Bauer <jens-lists@gpio.dk>
Date
Sep 26, 2012, 10:12 UTC
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Hi David and Junio.

At first, I was planning to reply that I'd probably not be qualified for that. But to tell the truth, I have been writing a lot of CR/LF/CRLF code throughout the years, so maybe I could do it. Unfortunately, I have to go slow about programming, because I burned myself out a number of times, so programming "work" is not compatible with me; though programming "hobby" is.

The implementation would be dependent on on how git is currently handling lines. Worst case is, if it's mixed CR, LF and CRLF, such as a text-file, that contains all 3 kinds of line endings (because 3 different people have been editing the file).

Love Jens

On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:42:02 -0700, David Aguilar wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> git doesn't really even support LF.
>> 
>> At the storage level that is correct, but the above is a bit of
>> stretch.  It may not be "support", but git _does_ rely on LF when
>> running many text oriented operations (a rough rule of thumb is
>> "does 'a line' in a file matter to the operation?").  Think about
>> "git diff" and "git blame".
> 
> Thanks for the thorough explanation.  You're 100% correct, as always.
> 
> I'll be honest: I had a small bias when responding.
> I didn't want anyone to think a "autocr" feature would be useful,
> so I played the "git is really simple" angle hoping it would
> put a kabosh on the idea.  That was a little silly of me.
> 
> That said, perhaps the "autocrlf" code is simple enough that it
> could be easily tweaked to also handle this special case, but
> I am not familiar with the code enough to say.  My gut feeling
> was that it was too narrow a use case.  I guess if someone[*]
> wanted to whip up a patch then it would be a different story,
> but it doesn't seem to be the itch of anyone around here so far.
> 
> [*] Jens, that could be you ;-)
> 
> cheers,
> -- 
> David
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  2. Drew NorthupSep 13, 2012
  3. Jeff KingSep 13, 2012
  4. Jens BauerSep 13, 2012
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  6. Jeff KingSep 13, 2012
  7. Jens BauerSep 13, 2012
  8. Johannes SixtSep 13, 2012
  9. Jens BauerSep 13, 2012
  10. Erik Faye-LundSep 13, 2012
  11. David AguilarSep 14, 2012
  12. Jens BauerSep 14, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2012
  14. David AguilarSep 26, 2012
  15. Jens BauerSep 26, 2012
  16. Jens BauerSep 26, 2012
  17. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2012
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