Re: File encoding for files ported between Mac and Windows?
Re: File encoding for files ported between Mac and Windows?
- Subject: Re: File encoding for files ported between Mac and Windows?
- From: Clark Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:08:30 -0800
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Alastair Houghton
<email@hidden> wrote:
> On 6 Jan 2010, at 04:45, Clark Cox wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Alastair Houghton
>> <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 5 Jan 2010, at 18:54, Dix Lorenz wrote:
>>>
>>>> How are you porting the files? You should be using some kind of Version Control System anyway and that way, when you check the sources out, they will be correctly formatted for the platform you are on.
>>>
>>> That's actually a *massive* mis-feature of many version control systems.
>>
>> Then just turn that feature off :) I don't think I've seen an SCM
>> system where line ending conversions are *mandatory*.
>
> CVS? Unless you tell it the files are binary, anyway, and that has other implications. I'm fairly certain some of the others I've used do it as well, but I don't have a list of which ones do and which don't.
Then I guess I can count myself as lucky for never having used CVS in
any real capacity for a cross-platform product :)
--
Clark S. Cox III
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