A _lot_ of UNIX editors will handle CRLF endings, but if you change a
file, they often write the result back with _mixed_ endings. Some will
also show the CR as '^M' or some other garbage at the end.
A number of tools will also end up confused, including very fundamental
things like "grep". Try this:
echo -e "Hello\015" > f
grep 'Hello$' f
and notice how the grep does _not_ find the Hello at the end of the line,
because grep sees another random character there (this might be
unportable, I could easily imagine some versions of grep finding it).
So I would strongly suggest against CRLF on UNIX. It really doesn't work
very well, even if some tools will handle it to some limited degree.
In short: having 'core.autocrlf' set will likely make it much more
pleasant to work across different platforms.
Linus
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