[Q] Regenerate src/depend with LF line endings, not CRLF.

Michael Sperber sperber at deinprogramm.de
Sun Apr 6 13:02:13 EDT 2008


Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> writes:

> What’s especially Windows about it? 

It's only used on Windows and only generated on Windows.

> Anyway, previous to your committing it with CRLF endings, it had had
> LF endings for over a decade. If your committing it with CRLF endings
> was intended to address a problem on Windows, you didn’t document
> that.

I assume that was because CVS couldn't handle the conversion more
gracefully.  Re-generating on Windows is naturally going to re-introduce
CRLF line endings.  Thus, changing to LF introduces needless
complications.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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