Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 15:53 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702141653160.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702140742280.3604@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > Last time I checked, the text files never had lines longer than 200 
> > characters (I chose this intentionally large). So, it might be a good 
> > heuristic to check the maximal line length,
> 
> No, some broken editor programs and people use "flowing text" files, where 
> a newline is actually a _paragraph_ end.

Good point.

Ciao, Dscho

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