Re: [Libusb-devel] CRLF in files checked out on Windows

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Pete Batard <pb...@gm...> wrote:
> On 2010.12.06 13:05, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> There isn't really any alternative; you cannot mix cygwin with
>> "native" mswindows stuff, without issues like these.
>
> Yes you can if you commit files that should be CRLF/LF as CRLF/LF in the
> repo in the first place and use binary mode (-crlf) always, which is my
> proposal for official.
>
> There's aren't any files that I am aware of that would need to be CRLF
> in cygwin and LF in native, or LF in cygwin and CRLF in native (unless
> you consider that Notepad should be used to edit files that are meant to
> be LF'd in the first place, like UNIX shell scripts. If despite the fact
> that MS project files are text files, we agree that these should  better
> be CRLF'd, I don't see how we could fail to agree that despite the fact
> that UNIX .sh or autotools .am/.ac are text files, they should be LF
> always - especially as we've demonstrated 3 different issues with non
> LF'd ones)
>

Yes this is well put. No conversion. And use the right tool
to edit the text files -- do not use Notepad to edit shell
script or use Unix editor to edit CRLF text files.


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