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Re: noob user, want checkins to all be forced to LF terminated lines

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WBWalter Bright <boost@digitalmars.com>
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Jul 31, 2010, 20:51 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Anyway, feel free to ignore this advice.  "cp -a" works fine already
> and is sometimes just the right thing to do.

Thanks for the info. I am so thoroughly fed up with applications that store their data in ways that cannot be backed up / restored with straightforward file tree copying. I don't know why anyone else puts up with that, either.

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