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

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 8:05:33 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Rustom Mody  writes:
> 
> > On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 7:33:18 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > > Never has for any of my projects. Examples please? Actual real
> > > problems? I've been using git for years, on mixed platforms for a lot
> > > of that, and not had a single problem.
> >
> > Pragmatically: As I said just search stackoverflow for git:crlf
> 
> Don't ask Chris to *guess* which search results are representative of
> what you're asserting. Please provide concrete examples that demonstrate
> specifically what you're describing.

I was answering Chris' specific "Never has for any of my projects"
by saying there are dozens of questions about this (FAQ) on stackoverflow

1st one it gives:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/170961/whats-the-best-crlf-carriage-return-line-feed-handling-strategy-with-git

Also some discussions by git devs:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/msysgit/Gb5tlbfEyPk

There are more acrimonious dev-exchanges that can be hunted down

Nevertheless my basic point is somehow a bit different:
A text file (content) is a list of lines
A line is a list of char
A char is... wont open that can of worms!

If git says it stores EOL as LF and can convert to LF or CRLF on demand
there itself is the leaked abstraction.
Knowing that git uses LF internally should be as relevant as say
machine endianness is to how python stores the tuple (1,2)