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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

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422 points km | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 19:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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djha-skin ◴[13 Oct 24 20:08 UTC] No.41831122[source]▶
> Let's make CRLF one less thing that your grandchildren need to know about or worry about.

The struggle is real, the problem is real. Parents, teach your kids to use .gitattribute files[1]. While you're at it, teach them to hate byte order marks[2].

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73086622/is-a-gitattribu...

2: https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/byte-order-marks-must-diemd/

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1. nsnshsuejeb ◴[13 Oct 24 21:46 UTC] No.41831938[source]▶
The letters after the dot in my filename don't map 1 to 1 with the file format.