I would be immensely confused if my SCM was modifying the contents of
my source code and/or support documents.
Given that MacOS has yet another EOL = [CR], it is better for your own
code to manage distribution effects.
Just my opinion.

-Steve

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Martin Gagnon <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know this new feature. But I'm really talking about converting the line 
> ending, for cross platform development issue.
>
> --
> Martin
>
> Le 2011-04-07 à 10:43, Clark Christensen <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>> I'm using fossil version [1d93222627] 2011-03-01 19:04:32 UTC
>>
>> With this version, Fossil warns about CRLF line ends on commit, and allows 
>> me to commit anyway, or abort and fix.
>>
>> This is a good option for me.  Some files are OK with CRLFs and others are 
>> not.  I like being able to choose.
>>
>>  -Clark
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From:Martin Gagnon <[email protected]>
>> To:Fossil Users Mailing List <[email protected]>
>> Cc:
>> Sent:Thursday, April 7, 2011 4:11 AM
>> Subject:[fossil-users] CRLF conversion on windows
>>
>> Hi, Is there any plan for CRLF conversion under windows?
>>
>> This would be very usefull for cross platform projects. Especially
>> when using Visual Studio on the Windows side, which silently add CRLF
>> line ending on a LF only file which give you a mixed line ending file
>> (got bunch of ^M when editing files with Vim after).
>>
>> it could convert text file from CR-LF to LF when committing and the
>> oposite on checkout, so this would always keep LF line ending on
>> repository and the local checkout on windows would have CR-LF line
>> ending text file. Just like does Git and CVSNT (using Tortoise CVS at
>> least).
>>
>> Of course this might be dangerous for data corruption when some binary
>> file are flag as text file, but this kind of feature would be off by
>> default for sure.
>>
>> --
>> Martin
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