From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 17:26:34 GMT
Subject: Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux?
Message-ID: <k2s40aa078e1005061026x277757f4pae151c4d312eb3de@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005061009020.901@i5.linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 6 May 2010, hasen j wrote:
>>
>> I don't know all linux editors, but I've yet to see one that can't
>> handle CRLF endings.
>
> A _lot_ of UNIX editors will handle CRLF endings, but if you change a
> file, they often write the result back with _mixed_ endings.

Just for completeness: The inverse is also the case on Windows; a lot
of editors will handle LF endings, but a handful of them will insert
gladly insert CRLFs under certain circumstances. Microsoft Visual
Studio is one of these.

So yeah, neither CRLF or LF everywhere is generally a good idea.

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund