Re: Poll: do we really need newline conversion?

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?"

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:52 2006