From: "Gabor Hojtsy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It does matter, because you get huge megapatches because > > of line ending changes. If you change line endings, diff > > treats the line changed, so you'll get a huge diff with > > all lines modified... For this reason, it is the best, > > in my humble opinion to use one standard line break > > (preferably Unix style \n only). > > a commitinfo script in CVS that would auto-convert these > or that would at least reject commits unsing Mac or DOS > style endings would be great
>Who can program a script like this? I can't :(( XML is able to handle all line endings. If you are using a Mac or a DOS machine, you have some problems with viewing the source. The huge megapatches arenīt related to this problem. -Egon
