Re: Poll: do we really need newline conversion?

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:20:37AM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Recently, some people posted asking whether Subversion should even
> bother to perform newline conversion.

I think subversion should have newline conversion, for all the reasons
other people have given:

o a _lot_ of editors do not handle non-native endings nicely
o many compilers do not handle non-native endings nicely
o most/if not all text processors do not handle non-native endings nicely
o it is an expected feature <-- do not underestimate this!

What the user wants to see is text files that give him or her the least
grief (read: native). Whether this happens on the server or client,
pre-this or post-that, does not matter to a user. They just want the
magic to happen.

I, too, have worked in a multi-platform shop. You will not believe
how nice it is to have conversion automatically handled. If I were
shopping around for a SCCS system for cross-platform shop, that would
be a must-have feature.

Dean

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