Re: [Libusb-devel] >=autoconf-2.63 no grokmultiline AC_CONFIG_FILES?

[Segher B. <se...@ke...>]

>>> Maybe you should check out _all_ text files as LF?
>
> Eh, Linux editors/viewers seem smart enough.

Most tools do not work, or don't work correctly, with CRLF line endings
on unix systems.  Even many editors/viewers do not (vim/emacs/less work
more or less though).

> Some Windows
> editors/viewers/difftools are particularly brain-dead with regard to line
> endings.

And, presumably, you want to use those?  Hrm.

> Thus, anything that can be CRLF probably should be, since the other OSes
> handle non-native formats better.

No, they don't.  And git expects plain LF for line-endings in the checked
in repo, for things like its built-in diff, etc.


Segher