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On 27 September 2006 20:42, Malcolm Nixon wrote:* Some detect the change to <LF> as changes require manual merging.
What, on lines that you /haven't/ edited locally? That's just a bug.
* Some translate files to a "Local" format (CR/LF on Windows).
FCOL, what on earth does an rcs think it's playing at, tampering with your data? Any rcs that doesn't give you back exactly what you put into it is just plain buggy. Nobody asked for a "automatically mangle my data whether I want you to or not" feature.
I think the bigger issue here is that this arbitrary change will break
a "significant" number of existing scripts.
YM a "significant" number of /broken/ scripts. Try running any of them on a linux box and see what you get.
-- Matthew The hippo made me do it! What? What do you mean you can't see the hippo?
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