Re: [boost] Git Modularization hiccups

Subject: Re: [boost] Git Modularization hiccups
From: Jonathan Wakely (jwakely.boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-24 07:10:40

On 24 May 2013 11:57, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
>>
>> Disabling the Git feature that automatically converts unix line endings to windows line endings
> allows to
>> avoid all line endings problems, but requires that you edit all files with a text editor that
> supports unix
>> line endings.
>
> Not very helpful if you are a Windows user?

Really? How many Windows text editors can't handle non-native line
endings these days?
(Notepad doesn't count as a text editor, and IMHO it's reasonable to
expect Boost contributors to use something other than Notepad - if you
can write C++ that works with multiple compilers on multiple platforms
then you can use a proper editor.)