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Re: [fpc-other] Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpGUI Toolkit source repository migrated to Git

Florian Klaempfl
Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:12:50 -0700

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Florian Klaempfl <flor...@freepascal.org> 
> wrote:
>> I know, but I don't want some crappy algorithm to guess if linefeed
>> conversion is needed or not, this feels so cvs like *g*
> 
> In that case, all you would need is an editor that supports Unix line
> endings and not try and convert them to crlf as you edit the file -

Oh, maybe at the end I should switch to linux to use git ;) ?

> then everything would work fine, even if autocrlf=False under Windows.

Windows uses #10#13 as newline marker, period. A program which cannot
handle this well (and svn shows that it is perfectly possible) is simply
crap and is not suitable for windows development.

> So Windows NotePad is NOT an option. ;-)
> The 'syn' editor which is based on the original TSynEdit component
> works perfectly.
> 
> Did you know that crlf conversion occurs in SVN as well. 

Of course and we use this feature.

> Hence the
> 'eol-style' property in SubVersion.  Git tries to auto detect text
> files and ONLY applies the crlf conversion on those. 

And that's what sucks: *auto detection* :)

>fpGUI repository
> should not contain any binary files other than images, and they work
> correctly even with 'autocrlf=True'.  And if a binary file is detected
> incorrectly as a text file, you can tell git about it using
> .gitattributes file.

How can I prevent that I forget this?
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