Nathan Tuggy schrieb:
> On 2010-01-09 14:13, Felix Saphir wrote:
>> Stu Redman schrieb:
>>
>>> The problem
>>> are not Linux editors, but other tools (msgmerge, automake, bash, awk)
>>> that behave in the "we are Linux and who cares about Windows" way. I
>>> can't change these tools.
>>>
>> You can - they're open source ;-)
>
> Yes, they are, but it occurs to me that this is not very helpful -- how
> much work would it be to fix msgmerge, automake, bash, and awk (and
> others) to handle CRLFs properly? Between 10 and 50 hours each, I should
> think, which is generally completely out of the question. Most of that
> time is simply getting set up to make changes to the code -- there's
> likely to be a 100-500% overhead dealing with small issues like this.
> I'm a great fan of open-source, but just being able to look at the
> source doesn't fix every inefficiency and flaw automatically.
>
> Fortunately, I suspect using eol-style=LF would do the job, or keeping
> separate WCs.
Exactly. The point is, that the requested change would almost certainly
break other peoples working copies if they don't (can't?) change their
tools accordingly.
Regards,
Felix
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