In message 
<o2v40aa078e1005061625md5fede79h660a22227c4f22d1@mail.gmail.com>, Erik 
Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com> writes
quoted text
>Closed source does not imply a single operating system, and you get
>these issues whenever you have a project with targets systems with
>different newline style. In my day job I develop closed source,
>multi-platform software, using git. So it's certainly not MY most
>common scenario.

And there's a lot more line endings out there than just lf or crlf.

Okay, the two I'm about to quote have, I believe, gone the way of the 
dinosaur, but wasn't the mac just cr? And what is *still* my favourite 
system, Prime (a multics derivative too), used a "packed lf", so your 
line ending could be either lf or lfnull depending on the line length 
(it was always stored on disk as an integral word-length, a word being 
16 bits. So if your text was an even number of characters, the ending 
was lfnull to pad it to the next word boundary).

Cheers,
Wol
-- 
Anthony W. Youngman - anthony@thewolery.demon.co.uk

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