måndag 12 februari 2007 00:13 skrev Mark Levedahl: > The recent threads on a mingw git port are explicit in the intent to > provide a Windows native git. I believe there is a fundamental conflict > here with the position, clearly stated by Linus, that git does not alter > content in any way. Windows suffers the curse of DOS line endings (\r\n > vs \n), and a true port to Windows *must* allow for \r\n and \n to be > semantically the same thing as most large projects end up with a mixture > of such files and/or are targeting cross-platform capabilities. The > major competing solutions git seeks to supplant (cvs, cvsnt, svn, hg) > have capability to recognize "text" files and transparently replace \r\n > with \n on input, the reverse on output, and ignore all such differences > on diff operations. To be relevant on native Windows, git must do the > same. Otherwise, git will be deemed "too wierd" and dismissed in favor > of a tool "that works." > As of today git is a posix tool simply because it's not fully ported to other enviromnents. I brought this up quite a time ago, and didn't face heavy artillery then, and wouldn't today either. The code is still missing though. I didn't write it then, because it's my #1 priority and nobody else did. Linus even did a rough scetch, but that's it. I guess git will get this feature when someone does the code for it. -- robin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html