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

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

>>> So does that mean you can have "text" that is CRLF in the repo?
>>
>> Yes; for example, someone who uses CRLF and has autocrlf=off.
>>
>> Such a repo is only usable by mswindows users.
>
> Interesting. I thought that git would always convert text to LF, but it
> looks like I was wrong. Then we could get the MS project files in the
> repo with CRLF using autocrlf=off (but I wouldn't advocate for this).

They can be marked as binary, or as -crlf, or simply as nothing: everyone
who checks those files in has the same crlf config as everyone who uses
them.  The first two options sound safest, yeah.

> I'm not seeing any incidence of text not always equating LF on my
> proposed solution for the .ac/.am/.sh problem though, unless I'm missing
> something.

What you are missing is that all people who need the build files
with LF line endings, need *all* text files with LF line endings.


Segher