Re: [PATCH EGIT Allow for git config to not error when lines have '/r' in them.]

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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > torsdag 08 januari 2009 04:10:05 skrev Ryan Alberts:
> > > I have attached a small fix for when a git config has /r lines in the file.
> > > I have to admit that I do not usually submit patches to the open source
> > > community and I am not very familiar with the process :-)  Please, please,
> > > let me know if I can do something different next time!
> > 
> > Back to the patch. I think we should only ignore \r (not /r, but could say CR in
> > a comment) before an LF. 
> 
> I disagree; ignoring CR anyplace in the file should be fine, unless
> it is within a double quoted value, in which case it should use
> the same rule that \n would use within the same region.
> 
> ' ', \n, \t all act the same with regards to being (mostly) ignored
> whitespace.  \r is no different.  Especially for anyone crazy enough
> to still be using a Mac style formatted file, with only CRs in it.

Those are copied from in to out in the repo config parser today. Why
should ' \r' be treated differently? Just CR (FF, Ctrl-G etc) is garbage, 
but CRLF is a well established line terminator.

-- robin
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