On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/13/2010 8:57 AM, Geoff Worboys wrote: >> >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> >>> There are workarounds but you can't just expect things to >>> work in general and pretend it is normal. And some of >>> those workarounds may involve silently changing to the >>> preferred local line endings - and if anything but subversion >>> itself does that it becomes a change in every line when >>> committed, making diffs useless. >> >> This may be true for some *nix systems/tools. But... >> >> For most modern (Windows) development software it is not a >> matter of "workarounds". They simply process the files and >> accept whatever line endings they find. Good editors will >> automatically switch between CRLF, LF and CR EOL modes >> according to what they find. They don't change the file >> (unless asked) they change their own mode operation. >> >> If your developers all work with LF then there will be no >> confusion and no need for workarounds. If anyone makes a >> mistake and accidently commits a file with CRLF it is an >> easy fix to resolve ... although most Windows software wont >> care even if you don't bother to fix it. > > If you have to worry about mistakes, you are doing workarounds. What windows > editor will create new files with LF endings by default?
Emacs and VIM. You asked.....
