Re: [COMMIT] Accept "\r\n" line-endings on all hosts

Andreas Schwab
2004-10-15T13:48:46Z

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, cagney@gnu.org,
>> gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
>> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 01:00:05 +0200
>>
>> >> Yup should be doable. No uuencoding necessary I think. Unless CVS
>> >> silently changes \r\n into \n.
>> >
>> > Some Windows CVS clients do that.
>>
>> Unless you mark the file as binary (-kb).
>
> And lose important features like diffs, per-line annotations, etc.
> No, thanks.

For a single small file just for testing purpose that should not pose much
problem. Otherwise I agree.

Andreas.

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