On 1/25/2012 12:51 AM, Thorsten Schöning wrote:
Guten Tag Les Mikesell,
am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2012 um 07:11 schrieben Sie:
The fact that text is different on
different systems isn't really something you can disagree with. I
don't like it any more than you do, but that's just the way it is -
something decided back in a different century.
That is really no argument as almost any developer tool is able to
handle both line endings today. You just have to configure it in your
IDE, TextEditor and whatever you use once and for all the team, just
like you define any other coding rules and there will be exactly no
problem. A lot of things were decided centuries ago and we don't do
them anymore.
Are you going to pay me (and all my clients) to buy those tools for
every machine in the known universe? I didn't think so.
And what happens when files get mixed line endings? Are you sure that
all tools handle them reliably?
I use "svn:eol-style=native" because it works reliably across
platforms. Without it I can't always edit text files on client Windows
machines - Notepad does not handle bare newlines *at all*. (That alone
is a good reason not to copy files from Linux to Windows directly,
whether directly or by viewing from a network file system.)
--
David Chapman dcchap...@acm.org
Chapman Consulting -- San Jose, CA
Software Development Done Right.
www.chapman-consulting-sj.com
