From: Wilbert van Dolleweerd <wilbert@arentheym.com>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 07:29:35 GMT
Subject: Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux?
Message-ID: <o2ved79be1d1005060029n67f451c6p3b48b83c51031222@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <x2h600158c31005051935i6f379a9j6aa36b4503776b87@mail.gmail.com>

> I personally find that autocrlf causes more confusion than it solves problems.
>
> I've yet to see a text editor on windows that can't handle \n line
> endings. (Notepad doesn't count)
>
> Just keep the project with \n line endings, disable autocrlf, and make
> sure that people are aware of this.

Editors may handle it gracefully but older Windows programs will have problems.

For instance, Visual Studio 6 will barf on Visual Basic projectfiles
with non-windows line-style endings. (And please don't ask why I know
this....)

-- 
Kind regards,

Wilbert van Dolleweerd
Blog: http://walkingthestack.blogspot.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wvandolleweerd