From: David Lang Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:19:39 GMT Subject: Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070213204248.GA21046@uranus.ravnborg.org> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > I wonder what we are really trying to address here. Or in other words > could the original poster maybe tell what Windows IDE's that does > not handle UNIX files properly? > > core git today should not care about CRLF as opposed to LF end-of-line > as long as the end-of-line is consistent - correct? > > So defaulting to autoCRLF in Windows/DOS environments was maybe > sane 10 years ago but today that seems to be the wrong thing to do. > For certain project the option could be useful if the tool-set in > the project *requires* CRLF, but if the toolset like all modern toolset > supports both CRLF and LF then git better avoid changing end-of-line marker. I've actually run into grief on this subject with perl scripts within the last year (files from windows systems with crlf not working cleanly on a linux system with just lf) this is real, not just historic David Lang