On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:39:27AM -0400, Chris B wrote: > I would like to point out: > - Git on Linux does not mess around with line endings. I can create > and edit a file in either line ending on Linux and commit and still > have it untouched. > - Git on Windows via Cygwin also does not mess around. > - If those flavors of Git don't mess around, why should msysgit do it?
Most platforms (i.e., the userspace of most unix-y distributions) do not mess around with line endings, either, so it is easy to have a sane default there. I think the Cygwin build just followed that existing defaults. But msysgit's behavior was directly responding to user complaints. And there were a lot of them. I do not use Windows myself, so I have only the perspective of reading the list discussions. And that only what bleeds onto the git@vger list, not the msysgit list. Searching for "crlf" on the list yields over 2300 messages, many of which discuss specific problems people are having without CRLF support. I do not think any decision in the open source world is final, and correcting a wrong decision from the past should always be an option. But I do not think it is constructive to say "your decision is wrong" without responding to the arguments that led to that decision. All I see in your email is "your default is not my preference" without responding to the discussion and perspectives of others through the years. > - Windows has been able to cope with UNIX line endings a long time; no > developer is using a default Notepad to open files with high > expectations. Any Windows development tool and editor worth anything > I've used is able to handle both just fine. Again, I do not use Windows, so my anecdotes are purely culled from the list. But people have mentioned that Visual Studio is bad for writing our CRLFs for files which already have LFs. This makes diffs unreadable, and gives merges, rebases and cherry-picks lots of spurious conflicts. > - If there was SO MUCH thought into this, then it was too much; it was > the wrong thought. There should not have been much at all, and just > allow Git to do what it does: store things *exactly* as you put it in. > Allow the clients to worry about things like line endings should they > have the need to worry about it. I'm not seeing how the revision > system has any business making alterations to things one commits into > it. One of the problems is that people do not realize the issue until they have built a lot of history with CRLFs or mixed line endings (which they might not even realize until the project starts being used by somebody with a different editor or platform), and then they have a very painful flag day turning on these options and normalizing the repository. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
