I do agree that it'd be nice to make sure the CVS image is standardized on
a single representation of newline.
Most editors can convert newlines, and most folks have a tool available
which will do so (though they may not realize they have it.)
Problem is, some diff tools don't realize that they can ignore the
differences between the different kinds of newline -- so if someone changes
'em and checks back in, I'd worry whether CVS might see that as a complete
file replacement.
The one that's been a nuisance for me is that someone occasionally checks
files into Apache with CRCRLF... which the various tools and editors are
understandably reluctant to convert to either one line-break or two, since
it isn't entirely clear what was intended. (It was meant as one. XML, of
course, would consider it two.)
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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
"The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee
got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
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