From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:14:21 +0100 Organization: Dewire Message-ID: <200702120114.21477.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <45CFA30C.6030202@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Git Mailing List To: Mark Levedahl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 12 01:13:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HGOp3-0004Ga-9W for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:13:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750964AbXBLANY convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:13:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750954AbXBLANY (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:13:24 -0500 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:20795 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750950AbXBLANT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:13:19 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB2F7803395; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:08:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15019-06; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:08:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.9.0.4] (unknown [10.9.0.4]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B1F80338F; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:08:27 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 In-Reply-To: <45CFA30C.6030202@verizon.net> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: m=E5ndag 12 februari 2007 00:13 skrev Mark Levedahl: > The recent threads on a mingw git port are explicit in the intent to=20 > provide a Windows native git. I believe there is a fundamental confli= ct=20 > here with the position, clearly stated by Linus, that git does not al= ter=20 > content in any way. Windows suffers the curse of DOS line endings (\r= \n=20 > vs \n), and a true port to Windows *must* allow for \r\n and \n to be= =20 > semantically the same thing as most large projects end up with a mixt= ure=20 > of such files and/or are targeting cross-platform capabilities. The=20 > major competing solutions git seeks to supplant (cvs, cvsnt, svn, hg)= =20 > have capability to recognize "text" files and transparently replace \= r\n=20 > with \n on input, the reverse on output, and ignore all such differen= ces=20 > on diff operations. To be relevant on native Windows, git must do the= =20 > same. Otherwise, git will be deemed "too wierd" and dismissed in favo= r=20 > of a tool "that works." >=20 As of today git is a posix tool simply because it's not fully ported to other enviromnents. I brought this up quite a time ago, and didn't face= heavy artillery then, and wouldn't today either. The code is still missing though. I di= dn't=20 write it then, because it's my #1 priority and nobody else did. Linus e= ven did a=20 rough scetch, but that's it.=20 I guess git will get this feature when someone does the code for it. -- robin