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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Support recursive operation in edos2unix.
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:26:34
Message-Id: 20130414112626.6222.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eutils] Support recursive operation in edos2unix. by "Michał Górny"
1 Michał Górny wrote:
2 > > > Any thoughts?
3 > >
4 > > If doing this at all I think it should take an -r option to enable
5 > > the new recursion, for symmetry with the do* functions and for
6 > > backwards compatibility.
7 >
8 > Backwards compatibility with what?
9
10 With the old non-recursive behavior of edos2unix that could only
11 operate on a single file.
12
13 Arguably, all old users *should* have refered to single files, but I
14 would still prefer adding a -r just to be sure to avoid collateral
15 damage.
16
17
18 //Peter

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