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From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Ryan Alberts <ralberts@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH EGIT Allow for git config to not error when lines have '/r' in them.]
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:53:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901122353.19408.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090112171045.GI10179@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote
> Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> wrote:
> > torsdag 08 januari 2009 04:10:05 skrev Ryan Alberts:
> > > I have attached a small fix for when a git config has /r lines in the file.
> > > I have to admit that I do not usually submit patches to the open source
> > > community and I am not very familiar with the process :-)  Please, please,
> > > let me know if I can do something different next time!
> > 
> > Back to the patch. I think we should only ignore \r (not /r, but could say CR in
> > a comment) before an LF. 
> 
> I disagree; ignoring CR anyplace in the file should be fine, unless
> it is within a double quoted value, in which case it should use
> the same rule that \n would use within the same region.
> 
> ' ', \n, \t all act the same with regards to being (mostly) ignored
> whitespace.  \r is no different.  Especially for anyone crazy enough
> to still be using a Mac style formatted file, with only CRs in it.

Those are copied from in to out in the repo config parser today. Why
should ' \r' be treated differently? Just CR (FF, Ctrl-G etc) is garbage, 
but CRLF is a well established line terminator.

-- robin

      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-12 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2009-01-10 20:34 ` [PATCH EGIT Allow for git config to not error when lines have '/r' in them.] Robin Rosenberg
2009-01-12 17:10   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-01-12 22:53     ` Robin Rosenberg [this message]

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