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Re: crlf with git-svn driving me nuts...

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 16, 2008, 21:02 UTC
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On 4/16/08, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  If you do not want problems, you should use core.autocrlf=true
> >  on Windows.
>
> If you are making the above statements in generally about git, I
>  disagree. I have used msysgit a lot with unix-newlines projects, and
>  it works fantastic. I am careful to work with newline-smart editors
>  but any half-decent editor will cope. The general hint is: avoid any
>  content-mangling options if possible, and git will do the right thing.

Various Windows IDEs (notably Delphi... and notepad :)) get confused by non-CRLF files and either do random things to the file, fail to compile, or "helpfully" change all the line endings back to CRLF. I agree that any program that does any such thing is braindead, but unfortunately, some people are stuck with such programs.

Avery
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Message 7 of 19 in “crlf with git-svn driving me nuts...”
  1. Nigel MagnayApr 16, 2008
  2. Dmitry PotapovApr 16, 2008
  3. Avery PennarunApr 16, 2008
  4. Dmitry PotapovApr 16, 2008
  5. Nigel MagnayApr 16, 2008
  6. Martin LanghoffApr 16, 2008
  7. Avery PennarunApr 16, 2008
  8. Dmitry PotapovApr 16, 2008
  9. Avery PennarunApr 16, 2008
  10. Nigel MagnayApr 16, 2008
  11. Dmitry PotapovApr 17, 2008
  12. Avery PennarunApr 17, 2008
  13. Nigel MagnayApr 17, 2008
  14. Dmitry PotapovApr 17, 2008
  15. Nigel MagnayApr 17, 2008
  16. Dmitry PotapovApr 17, 2008
  17. Nigel MagnayApr 17, 2008
  18. Dmitry PotapovApr 17, 2008
  19. Steffen ProhaskaApr 17, 2008

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