Quoting Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...36...>:
However, the bzr belief, which I think probably holds true most of the time, is that most good editors will handle the various conventions transparently, so it's not an issue.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!
My ...mumble...mumble... years of experience in the software field has shown the exact opposite.
While some editors deal with confused users decently, most do not. Especially since it's hard to know in which way users are not doing things well. MS's DevStudio is one of the worst for mixing line-ends, but others do it too.
Usually this will show up when someone spends lots of time tracking down weird bugs only to find out a line-end change messed up a macro with a continuation char at the end... things like that.
Even with SVN and such I've had to clean things up in Inkscape code now and then. Someone will check out and dev on one box, then check in from another. Often with Samba mounts or shared USB drives involved. Wreaks havoc with diffs and file history among other problems.
(then again if one never looks at file history and diffs, then one might never see a 'problem')