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Re: CRLF, LF ... CR ?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Sep 27, 2012, 06:16 UTC
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David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
> That said, perhaps the "autocrlf" code is simple enough that it
> could be easily tweaked to also handle this special case,...
I wouldn't be surprised if it is quite simple.

We (actually Linus, IIRC) simply declared from the get-go that it is not worth spending any line of code only to worry about pre OSX Macintosh when we did the end-of-line stuff, and nobody so far showed any need.

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