From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS file Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:07:04 +0000 Message-ID: <47CC7688.1060701@gnu.org> References: <18375.18663.981150.252393@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87od9wt19m.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com> <87tzjnvjhc.fsf@red-bean.com> <47CC3618.4030100@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204582083 22818 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2008 22:08:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:08:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 03 23:08:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWIpT-00043e-QT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:08:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWIov-0005vL-OM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:07:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWIoQ-0005Kh-Q6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWIoN-0005Fr-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWIoN-0005FU-Q4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:07:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWIoN-000097-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:07:07 -0500 Original-X-Trace: 53737762/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAADYFzEdTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIrV8 X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 03 Mar 2008 22:07:04 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91235 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Jason Rumney wrote: > > >> That lack of support could be a blessing in disguise. The only downside >> I can see is when adding new text files from Windows, you'll need to >> make sure they have Unix line ends before committing them. >> > > And that's why it is not a blessing. You'll be exchanging a suit of > mistakes by a different one. > Creating new files is not as common as the problems we encounter now with CVS. And if the version control system is not changing line ends behind your back, fixing such problems is a simple matter of checking in an updated version.