[Zope3-dev] DOS file endings not allowed in text files in CVS

Jim Fulton jim@zope.com
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:43:32 -0500


Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>What they should do is one of the following:
>>

...

> Or:
> 
> 4. Before checking in from Unix, normalize line endings.  I use
>    Tools/scripts/crlf.py from the Python distribution:

I don't think this approach is practical because people will invariably
forget to do it. I speak from experience. I know of some folks who
were going to run dos2unix before checking in and often forgot.

Jim



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