From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:44:00 GMT
Subject: Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702140742280.3604@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702141208020.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>



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. You have lines in the hundreds 
(and thousands) of characters, and the program will just flow the text for 
you.

Ugh. Horrible, I know. 

		Linus