Subject: Re: noob user, want checkins to all be forced to LF terminated lines

From: Walter Bright <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:51:15 -0700

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Anyway, feel free to ignore this advice.  "cp -a" works fine already
> and is sometimes just the right thing to do.

Thanks for the info. I am so thoroughly fed up with applications that store 
their data in ways that cannot be backed up / restored with straightforward file 
tree copying. I don't know why anyone else puts up with that, either.