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

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

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Xiaofan Chen <xia...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Xiaofan Chen <xia...@gm...> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> That being said, I do not see any files need to be forced
> to be CRLF,

With perhaps the exceptions of the MSVC project
files. But if we tread them as binary files, then
there are no problems.

> even the text files (the two files with .txt
> extension from libusb-pbatard). The are not CRLF
> in my checkout so it is not good to use Notepad
> to view it. Is that a problem? Not a problem for me.

Since I use Notepad++ under Windows,

> With this, then the maintainers who do not
> use Windows can edit those text files
> as well.
>



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Xiaofan