Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

måndag 12 februari 2007 00:13 skrev Mark Levedahl:

The recent threads on a mingw git port are explicit in the intent to 
provide a Windows native git. I believe there is a fundamental conflict 
here with the position, clearly stated by Linus, that git does not alter 
content in any way. Windows suffers the curse of DOS line endings (\r\n 
vs \n), and a true port to Windows *must* allow for \r\n and \n to be 
semantically the same thing as most large projects end up with a mixture 
of such files and/or are targeting cross-platform capabilities. The 
major competing solutions git seeks to supplant (cvs, cvsnt, svn, hg) 
have capability to recognize "text" files and transparently replace \r\n 
with \n on input, the reverse on output, and ignore all such differences 
on diff operations. To be relevant on native Windows, git must do the 
same. Otherwise, git will be deemed "too wierd" and dismissed in favor 
of a tool "that works."

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 didn't 
write it then, because it's my #1 priority and nobody else did. Linus even did a 
rough scetch, but that's it. 

I guess git will get this feature when someone does the code for it.

-- robin