From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wilbert van Dolleweerd Subject: Re: What should be the CRLF policy when win + Linux? Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 09:29:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4BE141E3.2060904@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 06 09:30:07 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9vX2-0005Ly-VO for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 09:30:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755569Ab0EFH3h (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2010 03:29:37 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:58826 "EHLO mail-bw0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755520Ab0EFH3g (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2010 03:29:36 -0400 Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so314127bwz.21 for ; Thu, 06 May 2010 00:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.7.212 with SMTP id e20mr7564521bke.117.1273130975264; Thu, 06 May 2010 00:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.114.131 with HTTP; Thu, 6 May 2010 00:29:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [77.61.241.211] In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > 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