Re: Pet names, true names, and nicknames Michael Stevens (mstevens@imaginet.co.uk)
Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:45:04 +0100

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 09:47:58PM -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
> Unfortunately, for source files we must fact up to the line end issue. (I
> deeply wish one system had won. Even the one I most dislike.) My
> suggestion is to define a canonical line ending convention, and convert all
> incoming source files to that convention.
>
> There may be a need to support binary files as well. An example might be
> project files for some of the popular IDEs.

As a potential user, sensible handling of binary files is pretty much essential from my point of view. I could probably live without tracking revision history on them, but they at the very least need to sit in the repository...