Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Peter Karlsson <peter-wzhfs8o2nki+/kzbbbz5qq@public.gmane.org>
Date: Jan 10, 2008, 09:25 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801101023380.11922@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801091041570.31053-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>

Johannes Schindelin:

> The problem is that MinGW behaves sanely, i.e. it does not output
> CRLF but only LF.

Well, that is broken, since the convention on Windows is to use CRLF.

> - Windows is already slow.  So slow that it is not even funny.  Granted, 
>   if you use Windows daily, git on MinGW seems snappy, but if you come 
>   from Linux, it is slow as hell.

True. And I run git a lot on a Novell disk share, which doesn't exactly help improve the speed either :-)

> - Some tools ported to Windows from Unix do not like CRs.

Those tools are broken, for the same reason as above.

Windows has CRLF line endings. Just deal with it.

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