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

[Orin E. <ori...@gm...>]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Pete Batard <pb...@gm...> wrote:

> (forgot reply to list on this one)
>
> On 4 December 2010 17:22, Michael Plante <mic...@gm...> wrote:
> >>> In other words: "Move over git! I'll take care of line endings myself.
> >>> And please make sure you don't touch them.", which seems to me like
> >>> the exact solution we want.
> >
> > Assuming it obeys your wishes.  Are you sure it does?
>
> Been using it for months now on libwdi and libusb. Haven't seen any
> evidence of files being converted back by git.
>
>
> >>> .dsw/.dsp/.vcproj/.sln must (should?)
> >
> > Don't know which, either:  must vs. should.  I haven't bothered to try
> them
> > with LF.
>
> Same here. Preferred to be safe and anticipate issues (especially if
> snapshots are built on Linux), and being in control of line
> terminators on these files, rather than leave git do whatever it
> decides to do for reasons that you need to spend hours to figure out,
> sounds like the better deal to me.
>



Don't worry too much about .vcproj and .sln - Visual Studio doesn't seem to
care about line endings in them.  It also silently accepts source files with
LF line endings.  In fact, as far as I know and as has been noted elsewhere,
the only standard Windows app that has a problem is Notepad.


Orin.