Re: Forcing DOS line endings on checkout/update

[Laine Stump]

Mike Castle <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:31:00PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> > It isn't that there haven't been enough complaints (there's been
> > plenty (no, I don't mean from the same people!) - I've saved them and
> > can send you a digest if you want ;-), it's that the active developers
> > cannot be convinced.
> 
> It's probably because the active developers have more experience than you,
> and know what a problem it is.

It's usually dangerous to make assumptions (unless you're talking
about changing the CVS source itself, in which case you don't need to
assume, just grep through logs and see that no commits have my name
;-). A more correct statement would be to say that they have
*different* experience than I do. Just because we disagree doesn't
mean that they're right and I'm wrong (or vice versa!) or that they
know more than me; it only means that they know something different,
just as I know something different from them.

> And files get checked in with the wrong line endings because they
> mixed and matched things.

And that already happens with CVS as well, just for slightly different
reasons.