Re: Bug-ish: CRLF endings and conflict markers

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Hi,

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> That said I don't really care about this problem that much. The problem 
> that I care about is its far too easy to convert the lineendings in a 
> file (e.g. CRLF->LF, LF->CRLF).  This causes the entire file to differ, 
> making merges very difficult.  I really should just fix it (in the one 
> place where it matters to me) by modifying the pre-commit hook to look 
> for such a case and abort.

Why not just introduce a config variable, and do the conversion in-flight?

Or, alternatively, do the merge ignoring white space? (Of course, this is 
somewhat pointless when merging whitespace fixes...)

Ciao,
Dscho

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