Re: [boost] Line endings in source files

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-08 21:10:27

From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>

> OK, thanks to Bill, Paul, and Dave for the explanation of what happened
and
> why it happened.
>
> Now, how to fix it?  (I'm assuming it is something that we want to fix.)
I
> can easily convert all the \r\r\n to \r\n.  (This is on a Windows
machine.)
>
> If that leaves any stray \r not followed by \n, add the missing \n. (This
> fixes any files edited on a Mac or having \r not followed by \n for other
> reasons.)
>
> Then just do a regular commit? or a forced commit?  I guess I could try
on
> one file first to make sure it works as expected.

What's a "forced commit?"

> Dave, would you like me to do that, or would you rather fix the files
> yourself?

You're welcome to fix them up for me. I'll do a fresh CVS checkout and get
rid of my --lf option so this stops happening. The cross-machine build
thing doesn't seem to provide enough benefits to be worth the trouble.

-Dave

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