Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] merge-file: let conflict markers match end-of-line style of the context

> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > We actually do not have to look at the *entire* context at all: if the
> > files are all LF-only, or if they all have CR/LF line endings, it is
> > sufficient to look at just a *single* line to match that style. And if
> > the line endings are mixed anyway, it is *still* okay to imitate just a
> > single line's eol: we will just add to the pile of mixed line endings,
> > and there is nothing we can do about that.
> 
> Isn't there one thing we can do still?  If we use CRLF for the
> marker lines when the content is already mixed, I'd think it would
> help Notepad (not necessary for Notepad2 or Wordpad IIUC) by making
> sure that they can see where the marker lines end correctly.

> > Note that while it is true that there have to be at least two lines we
> > can look at (otherwise there would be no conflict), the same is not true
> > for line *endings*: the three files in question could all consist of a
> > single line without any line ending, each. In this case we fall back to
> > using LF-only.
> 
> Yeah, this is tricky, and from the same "helping Notepad that
> concatenates lines with LF-only" perspective I should perhaps be
> suggesting to use CRLF in such a case, too, but I would say we
> should not do so.  Three variants of a LF-only file may have
> conflict at the incomplete last line, and if we only look at their
> "no EOL"-ness and decide to add CRLF to the result, that would be
> irritatingly wrong.