[wp-hackers] The same could be said for DOS-style newlines.

Sebastian Herp newsletter at scytheman.net
Wed Sep 1 23:50:08 UTC 2004


Mike Little wrote:

>The reason for sticking to a standard is that if the line ends change
>back and  forth between different contributions it really screws up
>the CVS diffs.
>So a standard was picked (Unix line ends \n only) and it should be adhered to.
>
>Mike
>  
>
It shouldn't  ... cvs is smart enough to automatically convert between 
CR an CRLF

Sebastian



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