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Re: remove CR/LF from .gitignore

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Nov 2, 2005, 16:02 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0511020759500.27915@g5.osdl.org>
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On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Alex Riesen wrote:
>
> For everyone cursed by dos/windows line endings (aka CRLF):

Btw, it would be good if somebody verified that the .git/config file also works with CR/LF.

I'm pretty sure "\" at the end of line will break, but I didn't care enough. And maybe nobody does. Normal config files _should_ work, but you can guess how eager I'm to test it ;)

		Linus
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