Line ending translation extension

[Martin Geisler]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Martin Geisler writes:
>
>  > > No, internal format should always be the same (probably LF).
>  > 
>  > I disagree -- I want a repository that looks normal even without
>  > using the extension.
>
> Well, *you* (singular) can have that, but *we* (plural) can't.  The
> repo-internal format (which may vary across files but is fixed for any
> given file) will necessarily look abnormal on some platforms; that's
> the problem we're trying to solve.

I'm talking about files which require a specific EOL format. It is those
files I want to preserve. But after I wrote the plan on the wiki, I
think I no longer care -- if people on Windows are file with encoding
everything in LF format in the repository, then it's fine with me :-)

-- 
Martin Geisler

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