i will say that administration/housekeeping tends to be the bane of my existence. and the handling of line feeds tends to fall into that category.

i am not sure why you would want to or care why the sourceforge download is different from the git checkout; but hey we all have our reasons. i would think all of the compare programs have a setting to ignore the line endings, but i can not say for sure.

i know at times on the github repo, it seems that files have linux line endings except for the lines inserted by the stamper witch have windows line endings.... perhaps, it is me and my config. i will look a bit more closely. but for me low priority...

Quote Originally Posted by DrByte View Post
zcwilt and I will be chatting about re-normalizing all files in 1.5.8. If we do it, be prepared for a massive number of changed files ... which upgraders will hate
and as far as normalizing files; as long as they have unix line endings, and contributors do not have to conform to one spec for existing files and another spec for new(er/ish) files, that would be great. considering any number of contributors all use phpStorm for their IDE, it might be advantageous to put in the docs the exact settings that one can use to conform to the new normalized files. i know one upgrader that will not say "boo" about the normalizing.