Re: [boost] Git Modularization hiccups

Subject: Re: [boost] Git Modularization hiccups
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-24 08:27:00

Jonathan Wakely wrote:

> I didn't think the suggestion was that all files must have unix line
> endings, just that because some require them (e.g. shell scripts with
> a shebang) that line endings should be preserved.  So if you're
> creating a new shell script with a shebang, it should use unix line
> endings, but then presumably you'll be creating such scripts on a
> unix-like OS anyway and this isn't a problem.

I recall that .cpp/.hpp files with Windows file endings don't work on Unix 
when, for example, some lines end with a backslash - only the CR is escaped.