[Dev] lingering SVN binary vs. text problems

[Heikki Toivonen]

Brendan O'Connor wrote:
> One option is to do away with all text conversions -- the windows user
> turns off text conversion on their client, or tag all files as binary.
> I mean, all the good programmer's text editors on windows understand
> unix line endings, so perhaps automatic cr/lf conversions just aren't
> worth it anymore...

Unfortunately MS Visual Studio is horrible with unix line endings (at
least used to be, haven't checked the latest version). It happily opens
a unix formatted file, but when you edit it, it inserts windows newlines
in the middle of the file. So you end up with a mix.

Yeah, maybe MS Visual Studio is not a good programmer's text editor, but
it's what we use to build and debug on windows. When you happen to be in
the debug window it is really tempting to edit the text then and there,
rather than switch to some other editor.

--
  Heikki Toivonen

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