[phobos] [dmd-internals] svn-->git migration

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Crazy thought - how about you change your editor to use LF? Operating 
systems wars aside, this is clearly a place where Windows borked up.

Andrei

On 1/25/11 3:13 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>
> Johannes Pfau wrote:
>>
>> The "core.autocrlf" section on http://progit.org/book/ch7-1.html says:
>>
>> "Git can handle this by auto-converting CRLF line endings into LF when
>> you commit, and vice versa when it checks out code onto your filesystem.
>> You can turn on this functionality with the core.autocrlf setting. If
>> you’re on a Windows machine, set it to true — this converts LF endings
>> into CRLF when you check out code"
>>
>> and
>>
>> "If you’re on a Linux or Mac system that uses LF line endings, then you
>> don’t want Git to automatically convert them when you check out files;
>> however, if a file with CRLF endings accidentally gets introduced, then
>> you may want Git to fix it. You can tell Git to convert CRLF to LF on
>> commit but not the other way around by setting core.autocrlf to input"
>>
>
> Here's what happens - someone checks in CRLF files on Windows. Then I
> check out the repository on Linux. Now, git status claims that these
> files are "different" on Linux and need checking in again.
>
> There really is no hope for this, other than ensuring that all source
> files checked in are LF, nor CRLF, terminated.
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