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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:53:34 +0100 (CET)
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Hi,

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > Last time I checked, the text files never had lines longer than 200 
> > characters (I chose this intentionally large). So, it might be a good 
> > heuristic to check the maximal line length,
> 
> No, some broken editor programs and people use "flowing text" files, where 
> a newline is actually a _paragraph_ end.

Good point.

Ciao,
Dscho