----- "Frederic Bouvier" a écrit : > ----- "Stefan C. Müller" a écrit : > > Thomas schrieb: > > > Thanks for that review. I'm still wary of the auto line term > > > conversion and would probably favor disabling it. > > > > > That's of course the safest choise for binary files. But it would > > certainly mess up the text files. > > While most windows tools can read LF, they all write CRLF by > default, > > > > some even to automatic conversion (like VC). We would end up having > > files of both types (and files with a mix inside) in the repository. > > And > > then we get trouble with all the linux tools not able to handle > > CRLF... > > > > So the convertion is more then just convenience. It's a necessity > for > > every project with both windows and linux developers. > > And this is what WinCVS is doing already. We were plaggued in the past > by binary file corruption on windows because CVS was not configured to > recognize binary file automatically but this is history. SVN flags > binary files automatically and GIT should do that the same way. And > you can override the settings manually.
There is sometimes the problem of Windows contributors sending CRLF files to Linux commiters. We end up with CRCRLF files with CVS. I hope GIT is smart enough to strip CR on Linux commit. -Fred -- Frédéric Bouvier http://my.fotolia.com/frfoto/ Photo gallery - album photo http://fgsd.sourceforge.net/ FlightGear Scenery Designer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
