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

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Actually, my patch already had one that you didn't mention: 
 6) CR never shows up alone.

Older Macs ;-)?

Yeah, I think we can ignore them..

Let's see if anybody ever complains ;)

I would agree.  0-31 except HT, CR, LF and ESC would be a good
idea; that would not harm text in UTF-8, EUC based various
locales nor ISO 2022.

You could possibly add 127 to the list too (it's ascii DEL, I don't know 
if you should ever see it in anything that has anything to do with text).

-	if (stats->nul)
+	if (stats->nonprintable)

But this is too harsh.

It's quite common to have the occasional FF character. Some things really 
do use it for page breaks. So saying that *any* nonprintable character is 
bad is not a good idea.

Same goes for BS (some programs use it to show bold and underlined text: 
man-pages, for example).

		Linus