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From: | Andreas Gruenbacher |
Subject: | Re: [bug-patch] Re: patch troubles with CRLF's again |
Date: | Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:27:35 +0100 |
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On Monday, 16 March 2009 22:52:13 Karl Berry wrote: > we would still end up with mixed line endings in new vs. existing > files. > > Yes, I understand, but at least the results are comprehensible, and I > think in nearly all cases, the results are what are actually desired. > IMHO. > > Requiring to turn off the trailing CR heuristic > explicitly on the command line prevents this aberration. > > So in those few cases where people want to force line endings one way or > the other, they can specify an option. Let me restate: I want patch to default to native line endings on each platform unless instructed to take patches literally (--binary), in which case no transformation happens. That way the common case will work, there will be fewer surprises because there is less guessing, and patch won't thwart attempts to achieve non-standard behaviors, either. Thanks, Andreas |
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