RE: Poll: do we really need newline conversion?

> From: sussman@collab.net [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
> Sent: 11 December 2001 18:32

> Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:
>
> > Frankly, I'm thinking we shouldn't bother. Why spend time on a
> > feature that a) people rarely need these days and b) has the potential
> > to do unexpected things to people's data?
>
> +1.
>
> But then again, I'm not some ancient, veteran CVS user who has come to
> depend on newline conversion. I have to admit that when I first heard
> that CVS had this feature, my reaction was: "huh? in a version
> control system?"

-1 on not supporting it. This will bite too many people.

Sander

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