Re: CRLF problems with Git on Win32

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin-mmb7mzphnfy@public.gmane.org>
Date: Jan 9, 2008, 13:32 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801091330340.31053@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <019B1C82-27BF-4B6B-981D-5498D31B5DD3-wjoc1KHpMeg@public.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

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> On Jan 9, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > -- snip --
> > *.am -crlf
> > -- snap --
> > 
> > (Did I guess right about the file extension? But why do you want to 
> > check in huge 3D stacks? Ah, of course, for test cases.)
> 
> Yes, thanks ;)
> 
> For now, this is the right thing to do.  However, our file format and 
> the application does not depend on the extension.  A a long term 
> solution, I'll fix our file format header to include '\0' if the file is 
> binary.

Of course, that would help the binary detection of both subversion and git, but it would break 3rd party readers of the format :-(

Thanks for the heads-up, Dscho