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Re: CRLF, LF ... CR ?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 14, 2012, 04:51 UTC
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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".

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