Re: [PATCH] tests: added d2u to have unix style testfiles even in textmode

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 05:00 UTC
Message-ID: <98CEB25C-A1ED-4F6C-B6F4-70310B819C1E@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708071959470.23971@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Aug 8, 2007, at 5:03 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>>
>> This is needed if the content of files is compared with
>> precomputed sha1s or stored expected results.
>>
>> ***WARNING***
>> This patch is useful for testing and illustrating the problem
>> but not thought to be applied to any official git branch.
>
> Quite frankly, *much* rather than having d2u everywhere, why not  
> make the
> default for DOS/Windows be to have
>
> 	[core]
> 		autocrlf=true
>
> and then none of this should hopefully be needed.

Thanks for that idea. I'll check how far I can get with it.

	Steffen

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