EOL best practise

[Eizua]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:39:35 +0000, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> I am going to set up two  fresh new repos, which I will share 
> 
>     -  with someone whomost of the time uses MSDOS line ending
>        convention 
> 
>     -  and the other one who will use the MaC line ending convention.
> 
> So in that case what is the best setting?
> 
> Should all the users just add the following line to their global .hgrc
> files:
> 
> [extensions]
> eol =
> 
> Or in  addition have the configuration line
> 
> [eol]
> native = LF
> 
> Which again should have all of the users in their global setting,
> otherwise things might go ugly.
> 
> Any comments?

If the Windows user has a text editor/IDE that can work with LF
line endings (e.g., Notepad++), why not stick with that so you won't need
to do any of this?

You might also want to consider using EditorConfig
(http://editorconfig.org/) if both your editors/IDEs support it.

/eizua