From: Walter Bright <boost@digitalmars.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:51:15 GMT
Subject: Re: noob user, want checkins to all be forced to LF terminated lines
Message-ID: <i322ca$niu$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100731203820.GA1773@burratino>

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.