From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:34:08 GMT
Subject: Re: CRLF, LF ... CR ?
Message-ID: <50522720.50204@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120913175300953765.9ccf790f@gpio.dk>

Am 13.09.2012 17:53, schrieb Jens Bauer:
> Hi Jeff and Drew.
> 
> Thank you for your quick replies! :)
> 
> The diffs look nasty yes; that's my main issue.
> It can be worked around in many ways; eg a simple (but time consuming) way:
> $ git diff mypcb.osm >mypcb.diff && nano mypcb.diff
> 
> -It'd be better to just pipe it into a regex, which changes CR to LF on the fly.
> 
> OsmondPCB is able to read files that has mixed LF and CR. (By mixed, I do not talk about CRLF)

That is good news. Just write a 'clean' filter that amounts to

   tr '\015' '\012'

You don't need a 'smudge' filter that reverts this conversion.

-- Hannes