From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:53:34 GMT
Subject: Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git
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:

> 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