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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 17:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702140855080.3604@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v64a4snfo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > Actually, my patch already had one that you didn't mention: 
> >  6) CR never shows up alone.
> 
> Older Macs ;-)?

Yeah, I think we can ignore them..

Let's see if anybody ever complains ;)

> I would agree.  0-31 except HT, CR, LF and ESC would be a good
> idea; that would not harm text in UTF-8, EUC based various
> locales nor ISO 2022.

You could possibly add 127 to the list too (it's ascii DEL, I don't know if you should ever see it in anything that has anything to do with text).

> -	if (stats->nul)
> +	if (stats->nonprintable)

But this is too harsh.

It's quite common to have the occasional FF character. Some things really do use it for page breaks. So saying that *any* nonprintable character is bad is not a good idea.

Same goes for BS (some programs use it to show bold and underlined text: man-pages, for example).

		Linus