Johannes Schindelin:

> The problem is that MinGW behaves sanely, i.e. it does not output
> CRLF but only LF.

Well, that is broken, since the convention on Windows is to use CRLF.

> - Windows is already slow.  So slow that it is not even funny.  Granted, 
>   if you use Windows daily, git on MinGW seems snappy, but if you come 
>   from Linux, it is slow as hell.

True. And I run git a lot on a Novell disk share, which doesn't exactly
help improve the speed either :-)

> - Some tools ported to Windows from Unix do not like CRs.

Those tools are broken, for the same reason as above.


Windows has CRLF line endings. Just deal with it.

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\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

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