Lineendings (was Everything good about Python except GUI IDE?)

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 6:09:33 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:26 am, Chris Warrick wrote:
> 
> >> git is a *collaborative* tool and should work when the other party is
> >> using notepad.
> > 
> > What should git do if someone saves, say, Ruby code as a .py file?
> > Should it rename it? Or should it figure out an equivalent snippet of
> > Python?
> 
> Don't be ridiculous. That's completely over the top.
> 
> It isn't asking too much for version control systems to *not care* about
> line ending changes. Who cares if the file changes from \n to \r \r\n? It
> shouldn't matter, or at least, it shouldn't matter much.

Unfortunately that's the outlook all major VCSes (not just git) have started 
with and its wrong.
Speaking somewhat simplistically:
On windows one should see CRLF
On *nix LF
And this SHOULD NOT be a diff!
[Assuming the VCS is serious about collaboration]

Analogy:
I stick my flash drive into linux and get /media/rusi/Transcend
On windows (I guess) its H:\Transcend
The SAME files and filesystem should be thus different right?

.gitattributes does make these (declarations) possible
... in a half-assed afterthought sort of way
with safecrlf and autocrlf as earlier poor bug-ridden bugfixes