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

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

>>> Yup, those files should be marked as binary -- we don't want to see
>>> diffs
>>> of big auto-generated XML-like files anyway.
>
> Well, the VC6 files are not XML. (*.dsp/dsw)

I said XML-like, not XML -- aren't those files a big semi-hierarchical
list of almost not manually edittable gobbledy-gook?

>>> I still don't understand why in your configuration those are checked
>>> out as CRLF, but other text files are just LF
>
> Oh, they are all CRLF in Windows; I just don't use those files in Windows,
> so no issue.  I do use them in Linux, but I have git configured
> differently
> there.  I use gcc in Linux, and Microsoft in Windows, so I'm ok with those
> files going whichever way you want (presumably LF, as I suggested).

So for you, the issue is that those files go weird for git, even though you
never touched them?  Ho hum.


Segher