[darcs-users] Line endings opinion poll (with bonus opinion)

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:42:02AM +0200, Peter Strand wrote:
> Usually it's preferably to use the system-specific format of text-files,
> and I think that it is the revision control system's job to do the 
> conversion. However, it is sometimes nice to be able use an alternative
> format, for example when sharing a filesystem between unix and windows
> I usually use unix-encoding for all files.
> 
> 
> I have an almost-finished patch to darcs which adds (primitive) support
> for windows newlines when reading and writing text files. It basically 
> just adds a --convert-newlines option to get and then keeps track of the
> format for subsequent operations..
> I don't know if that is a good interface..?

Sounds good.  On this subject I'm willing to defer to people who actually
use windows... :)
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David Roundy
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