From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:55:05 GMT
Subject: Re: use binmode(STDOUT) in git-status
Message-ID: <438B2859.6060109@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0511272334w393434e7lad3e3b102e6c3e9e@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen wrote:
> Activision's Perl generates CRLF unless STDOUT is binmoded, which is
> inconsistent with other output of git-status.
> 
> ---
> I assume none _sane_ can want CRLF as line-ending...

Well, if it's a text file we probably should use platform-native 
line-ending, and at least be tolerant of \r\n.

	-hpa