"Christopher Warrington (CHRISTOPHER)" <Christopher.Warrington@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2020-05-20 at 10:09-07:00, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote: > >> IMHO it will be probably still cleaner to do `tr -d '\015'`, even if the >> patch below avoids all current issues from the testsuite. > > My initial attempt to handle CRLF logs was shaped like this: > > tr -d '\r' <"$file" | while read ... > > This introduces a subshell, so there were concerns about propagating > variables and exits. So, Peff also suggested preprocessing to a file. Around > the same time Junio tried using IFS, and that was simpler. One thing was that extra processes and temporary files are pure overhead when people don't use misbehaving editors, so we could just say "don't do it then". It may not be worth paying the cost of being pessimistic and preparing for the worst. The "$IFS will split the tokens on the line for free for us" was a no-cost solution and that was why I suggested it. In any case, I think there are folks who are rewriting bisect piece by piece to C, and at that point it would just be the matter of using strbuf_getline_lf() vs strbuf_getline() to get rid of the unwanted CR for free.
