Re: Re: CRLF -> LF

On 12 Jun 2004 at 14:26, PHP wrote: > > Might be doable for files with types like php or text etc. Maybe > > someone with more packager-knowledge might propose a solution? > Of course it's possible, but will we also begin to fix other CS violations > in files? Also, in doing this, we'll /still/ keep a messy CVS with CR, > CRLF, LF, and files with multiple of those. > Also, forcing devs to fix these lineendings will fuck with CVS. It'll > assume all the lines have changed, which makes diff's horrible to read. > Consider comparing your current/local version, to a version that's been > fixed for line-endings. By default, it'd mark all lines as > changed, > eventhough few may be really changed. > > Dev-education would be the best way to go here, not forcing them upon the > files at some point. Maybe auto-correcting the files on the cvs-server when commiting :-)) But honestly: Yeah, see the problem. sn