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- To: Allegro Conductors <conductors@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] The return of the ^M characters from hell.
- From: Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gradha@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:44:52 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> Sorry? How do ^M's contaminate the diffs? Or is diff confused when
> comparing a UNIX style text file and a DOS style text file?
You just hit the pot: the problem is comparing files in style UNIX vs DOS.
AFAIK the Allegro documentation has always been in unix style. Somebody
has a "hard" editor which modifies the whole file to dos style every time
it's modified, and when it's commited, diffs contain the whole file due to
those ^M characters.
This is not a holy war about what style is better: if the source was all
in dos style, I would be then "The ^MKeeper". The problem is changing
style between commits, which is bad because forces a whole file download.
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Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz gradha@xxxxxxxxxx http://gradha.infierno.org