Re: [PATCH 0/5] Abide by our own rules regarding line endings

Hi Junio, On Sun, 7 May 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > Let me repeat myself: > > Don't. I had to. You did not understand me. > Instead, read through what you are responding to the end before start > typing a byte. In case you

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Abide by our own rules regarding line endings

Johannes Schindelin writes: > Let me repeat myself: Don't. Instead, read through what you are responding to the end before start typing a byte. In case you didn't do that, in the end I agree with the direction of the series ;-).

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Abide by our own rules regarding line endings

Hi Junio, On Thu, 4 May 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > Well, a couple of comments about your comment: > > > > - we say "shell scripts", but we're sloppy there: they are "Unix shell > > scripts", as they are executed by Unix shells.

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Abide by our own rules regarding line endings

Johannes Schindelin writes: > Well, a couple of comments about your comment: > > - we say "shell scripts", but we're sloppy there: they are "Unix shell > scripts", as they are executed by Unix shells. As such, it is pretty > obvious that they favor Unix line

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Abide by our own rules regarding line endings

Johannes Schindelin writes: > For starters, those files include shell scripts: the most prevalent > shell interpreter in use (and certainly used in Git for Windows) is > Bash, and Bash does not handle CR/LF line endings gracefully. Good to know. I am not sure if it

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Abide by our own rules regarding line endings

Hi Jonathan, On Tue, 2 May 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > Over the past decade, there have been a couple of attempts to remedy the > [...] > > I'm intentionally skimming this cover letter, since anything important > it says needs to also be in the commit

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Abide by our own rules regarding line endings

Hi, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Over the past decade, there have been a couple of attempts to remedy the [...] I'm intentionally skimming this cover letter, since anything important it says needs to also be in the commit messages. [...] > Without these fixes, Git will fail to build and pass

[PATCH 0/5] Abide by our own rules regarding line endings

Over the past decade, there have been a couple of attempts to remedy the situation regarding line endings (Windows/DOS line endings are traditionally CR/LF even if many current applications can handle LF, too, Linux/MacOSX/*BSD/Unix uses LF-only line handlings, and old MacOS software used to use