Re: what is git's position on "classic" mac <CR>-only end of lines?

> Am 01.10.2017 um 21:29 schrieb Bryan Turner:
> > On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >    sorry for more pedantic nitpickery, but i'm trying to write a
> > > section on how to properly process mixtures of EOLs in git, and
> > > when i read "man git-config", everything seems to refer to Mac
> > > OS X and macOS (and linux, of course) using <LF> for EOL, with
> > > very little mention of what one does if faced with "classic" mac
> > > EOL of just <CR>.
> >
> >   No command in Git that I'm aware of considers a standalone <CR>
> > to be a line ending. A file containing only <CR>s is treated as a
> > single line by every Git command I've used. I'm not sure whether
> > that behavior is configurable. For files with standalone <CR>s
> > mixed with other line endings (<CRLF> or <LF>, either or both),
> > the <CRLF> and <LF> endings are both considered line endings while
> > the standalone <CR>s are not.
>
> That's true, AFAIK. In addition, when Git auto-detects whether a
> file is binary or text, then a file with a bare CR is treated as
> binary:
>
> https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/convert.c#L91
>
> That basically amounts to: "it [is] considered not important enough
> to deal with" ;)