[darcs-users] CRLF Problem

[Jorey Bump]

Goldstein, Ken wrote:
> My small team at work has been using Darcs for about a month, and my 
> main problem has been caused by the lines ending in \r\n  being compared 
> to lines ending in \n being flagged as changes. I want us to use the 
> output of "whatsnew" and "change" to be part of our change control 
> documentation, but this problem limits the value of those commands.  I 
> know about dos2unix and unix2dos, but I don't want the developers to 
> waste their valuable time converting dozens of (J2EE) files to match 
> what the last person who worked on particular file did. We all use 
> different editors and IDEs and bounce between Linux and Windows which 
> causes this to be a mess. Any suggestions?  

I actually like this "feature" and deal with it by using editors that 
can cope with any/mixed formats. As a result, some of my source 
documents are quite hybridized where it doesn't matter (web pages) but 
potential problems are visible where it does (platform-specific 
configuration files).

This doesn't specifically answer your question, but if the problem can't 
be solved, hopefully you'll find that it isn't always a showstopper. 
Unfortunately, I've found that you can't adopt any RCS without 
establishing some local policies.