read configuration files in universal newline mode

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Jan 27 16:24:01 CST 2009


On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 23:15 +0100, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 21:56 +0100, Martin Geisler wrote:
> >> # HG changeset patch
> >> # User Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk>
> >> # Date 1233089757 -3600
> >> # Node ID 09e152c5c220ca53ab92276a629b0ae2130fa743
> >> # Parent  752325f2208d4279a4fc892adddd1bfbc61b0ad1
> >> read configuration files in universal newline mode
> >
> > Bleck.
> >
> > Surely \r is deprecated with OS X?
> 
> Maybe -- don't know :-) I just know that a poor Mac user on IRC could
> not get Mercurial to read his config file...

If we start down this path, things could get quite ugly. They're already
pretty ugly with the Windows newline situation with cross-platform
patches, etc.

If this is something that hits, say, 5% of Mac users, then it's probably
not worth fixing. We should instead tell them to join us in the 21st
century, where MacOS is Unix.

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