On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 6:09:33 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:26 am, Chris Warrick wrote: > > >> git is a *collaborative* tool and should work when the other party is > >> using notepad. > > > > What should git do if someone saves, say, Ruby code as a .py file? > > Should it rename it? Or should it figure out an equivalent snippet of > > Python? > > Don't be ridiculous. That's completely over the top. > > It isn't asking too much for version control systems to *not care* about > line ending changes. Who cares if the file changes from \n to \r \r\n? It > shouldn't matter, or at least, it shouldn't matter much.
Unfortunately that's the outlook all major VCSes (not just git) have started with and its wrong. Speaking somewhat simplistically: On windows one should see CRLF On *nix LF And this SHOULD NOT be a diff! [Assuming the VCS is serious about collaboration] Analogy: I stick my flash drive into linux and get /media/rusi/Transcend On windows (I guess) its H:\Transcend The SAME files and filesystem should be thus different right? .gitattributes does make these (declarations) possible ... in a half-assed afterthought sort of way with safecrlf and autocrlf as earlier poor bug-ridden bugfixes -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
