Windows users: do the line endings created by startproject/startapp matter?

[Tim Graham]

There's an old ticket [0] noting that startproject/app create files with Unix line endings, even on WIndows. My question is whether or not this matters. Some things I thought of:

I think version control programs like Git usually normalize line endings anyway.

The proposed change only applies to Python files that the template commands are rewriting, not to any other text-based files such as template files (the default project/app templates don't have any, but custom project/app templates might).

Does makemigrations (and any other management commands that write files) already have this behavior?

Thanks for your feedback so we can best spend our time.

[0] https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/21046

[Mike Dewhirst]

I haven't had any such problems. I develop on Windows and deploy on
Linux. Editors and repos look after all that.

If I did have a problem I would consider it my own responsibility to
choose a different set of tools to resolve it.

Not a Django issue IMO.

Cheers (and thanks!)

Mike

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