Re: use binmode(STDOUT) in git-status

Johannes Schindelin, Mon, Nov 28, 2005 17:56:58 +0100:

quoted

if you're running Cygwin, wouldn't Cygwin's Perl make a lot more sense?

I thought so, too, but I guess there's a reason that Activision's perl was 
used.

the reason were incompatible scripts (notably, the ones expecting crlf).