> I personally find that autocrlf causes more confusion than it solves problems.
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>
> I've yet to see a text editor on windows that can't handle \n line
> endings. (Notepad doesn't count)
>
> Just keep the project with \n line endings, disable autocrlf, and make
> sure that people are aware of this.

Editors may handle it gracefully but older Windows programs will have problems.

For instance, Visual Studio 6 will barf on Visual Basic projectfiles
with non-windows line-style endings. (And please don't ask why I know
this....)

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