From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:12:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MinGW: Use pid_t more consequently, introduce uid_t for greater compatibility
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0912311511350.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4B3CAC2D.5050500@kdbg.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Sebastian Schuberth schrieb:
> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 22:09, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > > MinGW: Use pid_t more consequently, introduce uid_t for greater
> > > > compatibility
> > > Why this? Compatibility with what? What's the problem with the status quo?
> > 
> > I wanted to include Hany's Dos2Unix tool (hd2u) into msysGit.
> 
> We have dos2unix. What's wrong with it?

hd2u can handle mixed line endings, and it has a dry run mode IIUC.

Ciao,
Dscho